Multiple Choice
Research reviewing changed rules for deliberation allowing jurors to find guilt with less than unanimous agreement showed that the rule change
A) has had little or no effect on deliberations
B) shortened deliberations, but also let juries bring in more guilty verdicts on the same evidence
C) shortened deliberation time, but when jurors looked at the same evidence, the rate of guilty verdicts was no different under the two rules
D) resulted in a greater number of hung juries,
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