Charlie Poindexter had been running a great business on E-Bay selling stolen property to unsuspecting E-Bay customers
However, the E-Bay security operatives managed to discover his consumer scam involving interstate commerce and alerted the federal prosecutor in San Francisco. Charlie Poindexter now faces federal charges resulting from his electronic scam played on the Internet. Charlie Poindexter has requested a trial by jury. The defendant has heard of smaller juries and non-unanimous jury verdicts and wonders how many jurors must vote to convict him of the federal charges for which he has been indicted. As a general rule, the correct jury vote would require that
A) eight jurors out of twelve must vote in favor of a guilty verdict to obtain a valid decision in a federal criminal trial.
B) nine out of twelve jurors must vote for a guilty verdict to produce a valid federal court decision.
C) a jury vote consisting of five out of six creates a valid federal judgment.
D) six out of six jurors must vote for conviction to make a valid judgment
E) twelve out of twelve jurors must vote for conviction to make a valid judgment.
E
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