State v. Fajardo

How courts have described this case

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• error to give the jury an Allen charge—that a deadlock means the case must be retried, and that minority jurors should reconsider in light of their status as such
• error to give the jury an Allen charge — that a deadlock means the case must be retried, and that minority jurors should reconsider in light of their status as such
• defendant charged with murder was convicted of included offense of manslaughter shortly after deadlocked jury was given an Allen instruction
• jurors returned verdict one hour after faulty instruction despite deliberating for four days
• jurors returned verdict one hour after faulty instruction despite deliberating for four days

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).