California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Simon, B293728 (Cal. App. 2020):
may give the jurors a break (Debose, at p. 210), and may give them a supplemental instruction that is not coercive (People v. Moore (2002) 96 Cal.App.4th 1105, 1121). And nothing about the court's interaction with the jury was coercive: The instruction reminded jurors not to "surrender[] [their] individual judgment" and the court both before and after that instruction told the jurors that they could stop deliberating if "it's not working out" and that the court was not "pressur[ing]" them.
Defendant raises three arguments in response.
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