United States v. Razmilovic

How courts have described this case

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• stating that “instructing the jury about the possibility of reaching a partial verdict” is one alternative to a mistrial that we consider under manifest necessity review
• finding no waiver when defendant orally joined motion for mistrial but withdrew motion before judge discharged the jury
• considering “what actions, if any, the trial judge took prior to declaring a mistrial to help [him] determine whether the jury [were] genuinely deadlocked”
• identifying several factors that guide review of whether jury was deadlocked
• a district court’s declaration of a mistrial on grounds of manifest necessity is reviewed for abuse of discretion
• “When a defendant moves for or consents to a mistrial, the Double Jeopardy Clause usually imposes no bar to retrying that defendant.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).