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Recently, Hannaford and colleagues (2002) examined the causes of juror deadlock in 336 non-capital felony jury trials conducted in state courts in Los Angeles County (CA), Maricopa County (AZ), Bronx County (NY), and the District of Columbia (DC) between June 2000 and August 2001. Thirteen percent of these cases hung on one or more of the charges. Juries that hung on at least one charge…