compromise verdict

A verdict reached when jurors, to avoid a deadlock, concede some issues so that other issues will be resolved as they want. [Cases: Criminal Law 866; Federal Civil Procedure 1974.1; Trial 315. C.J.S. Criminal Law §§ 1372, 1381; Trial §§ 800–802, 822.]

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