Government of the Virgin Islands v. Hercules, Von

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “Jurors must be given an opportunity in open court to express their agreement or disagreement with the verdict.”
• “[A] jury cannot be said to have reached a valid verdict until the result is announced in open court and no dissent is registered by any juror.”
• “[A] jury cannot be said to have reached a valid verdict until the result is announced in open court and no dissent is registered by any juror.”
• “Reliance on verdict slips signed in the jury room is inadequate.”
• “[A] verdict is not final when announced. . . . Rather, the test for validity of the verdict is whether it was certain, unqualified and unambiguous considering the circumstances of the receipt of the verdict and poll of the jurors relative to their verdict.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).