hung jury

English

Noun

hung jury (plural hung juries)

1. (law) A jury in a legal trial that is unable to reach or come to a verdict because the jurors cannot agree on a decision.

   The prosecution re-filed charges after a mistrial was declared due to a hung jury.

Translations

jury that is unable to reach a verdict

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 懸而未決的陪審團／悬而未决的陪审团 (xuán'érwèijué de péishěntuán), 懸案陪審團／悬案陪审团 (xuán'àn péishěntuán)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: erimielinen valamiehistö, erimielinen jury
• French: please add this translation if you can
• German: no idiomatic term; one can say uneinige Jury f; if possible, express verbally like die Geschworenen wurden sich nicht einig / konnten kein gemeinsames Urteil fällen
• Hungarian: határozatképtelen esküdtszék
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: прися́жные, несумевшие прийти к единому реше́нию pl (prisjážnyje, nesumevšije prijti k jedinomu rešéniju)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

See also

• hung parliament
• jury is out

Further reading

• hung jury on Wikipedia.Wikipedia