California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Oville, E041982 (Cal. App. 5/15/2008), E041982 (Cal. App. 2008):
"Any claim that the jury was pressured into reaching a verdict depends on the particular circumstances of the case. [Citations.]" (People v. Pride, supra, 3 Cal.4th at p. 265.) We ask "whether the instructions tend to impose such pressure on jurors to reach a verdict that we are uncertain of the accuracy and integrity of the jury's stated conclusion. This determination . . . is perhaps best characterized as requiring a generalized assessment of the potential effect of a given instruction on the fact finding process, rather than as an attempted inquiry into the actual volitional quality of a particular jury verdict." (People v. Gainer (1977) 19 Cal.3d 835, 850.)
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