Cucuzzella v. Bilinski

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• statute violated where jury deliberated from 4:00 p.m. until 6:00 p.m. the next day without lunch, indicated it could not agree, judge instructed jury to retire again, and foreman responded “[w]e have been in the room for twenty-four hours, and can’t agree”
• court found violation of the predecessor statute to section 14-7-1330 where jurors were forced to continue deliberations while confined in the jury room overnight despite the fact that they sent word on two occasions that they desired to be let out

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