{"id":10308,"date":"2017-12-08T02:44:01","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T02:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=10308"},"modified":"2017-12-08T08:39:07","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T08:39:07","slug":"types-of-verdicts-a-jury-can-render","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=10308","title":{"rendered":"Types of Verdicts a Jury can Render:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=10076\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hung Jury<\/a> <\/span>\u2013 a jury that cannot reach a unanimous verdict or a verdict supported by the requisite number or jurors by the required voting margin.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=10304\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jury Nullification<\/a><\/span> \u2013 a jury\u2019s knowing and deliberate refusal to apply the law, generally because the law itself is contrary to the jury\u2019s sense of justice, morality, or fairness.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=10310\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">Jury Pardon<\/span><\/a> \u2013 a rule that permits a jury to convict a defendant of a lesser offense than the offense charged if sufficient evidence exists to convict the defendant of either offense.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hung Jury \u2013 a jury that cannot reach a unanimous verdict or a verdict supported by the requisite number or jurors by the required voting margin. Jury Nullification \u2013 a jury\u2019s knowing and deliberate refusal to apply the law, generally because the law itself is contrary to the jury\u2019s sense of justice, morality, or fairness. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=10308\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Types of Verdicts a Jury can Render:<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":10384,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10308","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10308"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10386,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10308\/revisions\/10386"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}