# South Carolina police officer charged with murder.

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 8, 2015, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-carolina-police-officer-charged-with-murder/717087 "2015-04-08T01:36:51Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 6, 2016, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-carolina-police-officer-charged-with-murder/717087/341 "2016-12-06T03:43:24Z")

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> [@BigT](#):
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> Doesn’t a deadlocked jury mean a retrial is possible, though?
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> I mean, I’ve thought about nullification before, and one thing that made me okay with it is the retrial.

Whether there is potential for a re-trial depends on the local criminal procedure law. In some jurisdictions, the prosecutor has the discretion to begin again, but in other jurisdictions, the prosecutor has to convince a judge to allow the re-trial to go ahead. So a juror nullifying may make a re-trial difficult to get.

As well, a re-trial is only an option if nullification leads to a mistrial. However, if the jury unanimously agreed to nullify and renders a verdict of “not guilty” (as happened in the Emmett Till case), there’s no chance for a re-trial (in the US).

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