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twelve strangers deciding your fate after agreeing the donuts were stale.
means Verdicts are the formal decisions a jury or judge reaches about whether someone is guilty or liable at the end of a trial.
from From the Latin 'veredictum,' literally 'a thing truly said' — 'vere' (truly) plus 'dictum' (spoken). It traveled into English through Anglo-Norman French as 'verdit,' the courtroom's word for a sworn declaration of the truth, before settling back toward its Latin spelling. So buried in the word is a quiet demand: not just a decision, but a truth-telling.
originFrom Latin vere dictum, meaning truly said.
unanimityMost U.S. felony verdicts require all twelve jurors agree.
deadlockA hung jury means no verdict, just exhaustion.
speed recordSome juries return verdicts in under ten minutes.
acquittal sticksDouble jeopardy bars retrying a not-guilty verdict.