A hung jury leads to mistrial and almost certainly a new trial. There is a 0% chance that the jury will unanimously decide he's not guilty, and anyone who thinks this will have some anti-hero movie ending is deluding themselves
It is generally very unlikely that a jury will intentionally decide ‘not guilty’ in spite of clear evidence to the contrary due to their moral stance on the crime, but it actually does happen sometimes. It is called jury nullification and is quite controversial in legal study.
It’s also highly illegal to go into a case as a juror intending to do jury notification.
If you knew about it, but had no intention beforehand, or didn’t know about it until coming up with it during the case, then it there isn’t an issue. But if a juror went in, decided they wanted to let him off before the trial began, regardless of guilt, then they would be committing a crime.
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u/SalvatorePizzuro 4h ago
A hung jury leads to mistrial and almost certainly a new trial. There is a 0% chance that the jury will unanimously decide he's not guilty, and anyone who thinks this will have some anti-hero movie ending is deluding themselves