Is a jury entitled to reconsideration of their verdict?

The concern of this section is with a trial court's initiation of jury reconsideration of their verdict on its own accord. (See People v. Crawford (1953) 115 Cal.App.2d 838, 842, 252 P.2d 963.) In the case before us, the reconsideration of the verdict was clearly initiated by the jury itself. Thus this is [163 Cal.App.3d 659] not the case, as the appellant suggests, of a trial court refusing to accept a particular verdict and ordering the jury to reconsider their decision. ¹⁰