Baum v. Morhous

How courts have described this case

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• holding that juries should not be permitted to consider a lesser-included offense until after they unanimously find defendant not guilty of the greater offense
• holding that juries should not be permitted to consider a lesser-included offense until after they unanimously find defendant not guilty of the greater offense
• concluding that acquittal first instructions did not offend defendant’s right to jury trial under Tennessee constitution
• concluding that \unable to agree\ instructions \have a deleterious effect\ on the state because they may prevent retrial of an offense on which the jury did not find the defendant not guilty
• concluding that “unable to agree” instructions “have a deleterious effect” on the state because they may prevent retrial of an offense on which the jury did not find the defendant not guilty
• noting that “it is the duty of the jury not to reach compromise verdicts based on sympathy for the defendant or to appease holdouts, but to render a just verdict by applying the facts it finds to the law it is charged.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).