Opinion
KATZ, J.
The dispositive issue in this interlocutory appeal is whether the trial court properly found, over the defendant's objection, the requisite manifest necessity to declare a mistrial despite its failure to inquire of the jurors, as requested by the defendant, whether they had reached a unanimous verdict on the charge of murder, or any of the lesser included offenses charged, before declaring that they were deadlocked. We conclude that...
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