California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from The People v. Hightower, 77 Cal.App.4th 1123, 92 Cal.Rptr.2d 497 (Cal. App. 2000):
This second note, quite unequivocally states that the jury was deadlocked. The trial court, however, rejected that view despite defense counsel's objection. This would have been a point at which the court could have elected to inquire of the jury as to the numerical division of its votes and whether there was a reasonable probability that additional deliberation would result in a unanimous verdict. (Pen. Code, 1140; People v. Price (1991) 1 Cal.4th 324, 467.)
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