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High court to decide double jeopardy question

The Supreme Court will decide whether a jury forewoman's offhand comment that the jury was unable to make a decision on a murder charge means the suspect can't be retried on that charge.

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Tired - 10/12/2011 7:52 AM
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there's a reason the jury passes a piece of paper to the judge....there's a reason the foreperson of the jury is the only one that speaks...there's a reason the foreperson says very specific things...the judge should have covered that in jury instuctions....now we got to let an obvious thug go...don't ya'll feel stupid now...if you don't you should
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