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COM. v. GREER

951 A.2d 346 (2008)

COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellant v. Benjamin GREER, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided July 24, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William George Young, Esq., Hugh J. Burns, Jr., Esq., Philadelphia District Attorney's Office, for Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Mark S. Keenheel, Esq., Maplewood Mall Law Center, for Benjamin Greer.

Chief Justice CASTILLE.

The question on appeal is whether the trial court abused its discretion in issuing Spencer1 instructions—that is, instructions to a deadlocked jury to continue to deliberate, with an open mind to reconsideration of views, without giving up firmly held convictions—in an instance where the jury foreperson volunteered to the trial court the fact of the deadlock as well as the numerical division...

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