The following excerpt is from Jimenez v. Myers, 12 F.3d 1474 (9th Cir. 1993):
3) Total Time of Deliberations--The jury deliberated a total of nine and a half hours. This was not "so disproportionate to the task before the jury as to raise an inference" of coercion. United States v. Beattie, 613 F.2d 762, 766 (9th Cir.1980).
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