"If we cannot come to a consensus for a single count"

There is a thread about this right below yours

Wow.

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Sorry for the duplicative thread.... at work and don't have time to read much

If the charge don't fit, you must ACQUIT !

If they don’t check the guilty box, then they’ll be doxed...

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The jury asked in a note signed by the foreman today: "If we cannot come to a consensus for a single count, how can we fill in the verdict sheet?"

I think we are misinterpreting this .....looks like the jury cannot reach a consensus on any of the counts

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Not true, this is the actual text of the note.

“Your honor, if we cannot come to a consensus on a single count, how should we fill in the jury verdict form for that count, and what does that mean for the final verdict?”

The simplest interpretation is that they are unanimous on 17 out of 18 counts, and there is one "single" count that they are not unanimous on.

I could also see the foreman phrasing it this way if they had a consensus on multiple counts, but maybe couldn't agree on just a few. The phrasing definitely indicates that there is just one that they can't agree on, but they're jurors, not lawyers, and maybe they just want to know how to mark the verdict sheet for a few counts for which they cannot agree on guilty or not-guilty.

Also, the fact that they are asking how this would affect the "final verdict" definitely seems to indicate that they do intend to deliver a verdict on some of the counts even if that they can't reach one for all 18. It seems they want to be assured that mistrial on one count doesn't automatically mean a mistrial on all counts (and it doesn't).