text: um kind of gets back to the second request we 've been asked to look at is most criminal cases requiring an ananimous verdict the a situation like that i 'd say no let 's just go like a regular vote eight to four tells me that there were eight there 's a percentage certain percentage of the people there with sixty percent of the people uh seventy percent of the people said hey
  
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  When a jury votes eight to four that means the dissenters believe a mistrial has occurred .