{"id":4372,"date":"2017-08-10T01:41:43","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T01:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=4372"},"modified":"2017-08-13T21:19:28","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T21:19:28","slug":"rule-48-number-of-jurors-verdict-polling","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=4372","title":{"rendered":"Rule 48 \u2013 Number of Jurors; Verdict; Polling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">(a)\u00a0<strong>Number of Jurors<\/strong>.\u00a0A jury must begin with at least 6 and no more than 12 members, and each juror must participate in the verdict unless excused under\u00a0<a title=\"Rule 47 \u2013 Selecting Jurors\" href=\"https:\/\/www.federalrulesofcivilprocedure.org\/frcp\/title-vi-trials\/rule-47-selecting-jurors\/\">Rule 47(c)<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">(b)\u00a0<strong>Verdict<\/strong>.\u00a0Unless the parties stipulate otherwise, the verdict must be unanimous and must be returned by a jury of at least 6 members.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">(c)\u00a0<strong>Polling<\/strong>.\u00a0After a verdict is returned but before the jury is discharged, the court must on a party\u2019s request, or may on its own, poll the jurors individually. If the poll reveals a lack of unanimity or lack of assent by the number of jurors that the parties stipulated to, the court may direct the jury to deliberate further or may order a new trial.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(a)\u00a0Number of Jurors.\u00a0A jury must begin with at least 6 and no more than 12 members, and each juror must participate in the verdict unless excused under\u00a0Rule 47(c). (b)\u00a0Verdict.\u00a0Unless the parties stipulate otherwise, the verdict must be unanimous and must be returned by a jury of at least 6 members. (c)\u00a0Polling.\u00a0After a verdict is returned &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=4372\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rule 48 \u2013 Number of Jurors; Verdict; Polling<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":5002,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4372","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4372","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=4372"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5013,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4372\/revisions\/5013"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}