deadlocked
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The judge declared a mistrial after a Massachusetts jury deadlocked after seven days of deliberations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
At this writing, the jury does not appear close to a verdict in the Clancy case, and may well be deadlocked.
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026
Jurors in the trial of Lindsay Clancy are deadlocked after three days of deliberations, but a judge has asked them to keep trying.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
His 2020 conviction and 23-year prison sentence in New York for other alleged assaults was overturned and juries were deadlocked in subsequent retrials involving one of his accusers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
He stood in front of the car, waiting for them to push him in, his eyes wide with astonishment, his impulses deadlocked, trying to remember something.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
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