Bill Title: Provides that whenever courts submit two or more offenses in the alternative to the jury, and the jury cannot agree on a verdict as to the greatest offense, the court may instruct the jury that it may go on to consider any lesser included offense of that count; provides, however, that the court must instruct the jury that if the defendant is convicted of a lesser included offense, he or she may not be retried on the greater offense.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to codes [A02800 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

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