TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2005//
TI  - The Elimination of Hung Juries: Retrials and Nonunanimous Verdicts
JO  - International review of law and economics
A1  - Neilson, William S.
A1  - Winter, Harold
SP  - 1
EP  - 19
VL  - 25
IS  - 1
N2  - 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 /> 
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SN  - 0144-8188
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.irle.2005.05.004
ID  - ref1
ER  -