@article{ref1,
title="The Elimination of Hung Juries: Retrials and Nonunanimous Verdicts",
journal="International review of law and economics",
year="2005",
author="Neilson, William S. and Winter, Harold",
volume="25",
number="1",
pages="1-19",
abstract="Relaxing the unanimity requirement for verdicts in a given criminal trial leads to fewer hung juries and more verdicts of all four types: correct and wrongful convictions, and correct and wrongful acquittals. A criminal proceeding, however, does not necessarily end when a jury hangs. We demonstrate that if retrials occur until a verdict is reached, a unanimous verdict rule is generally more accurate than a nonunanimous rule with respect to the probabilities of all four types of verdicts. Thus, a tradeoff between hung jury costs and verdict accuracy exists when considering unanimous versus nonunanimous verdict rules.<p />",
language="",
issn="0144-8188",
doi="10.1016/j.irle.2005.05.004",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.irle.2005.05.004"
}