WI · jury_instructions
Wis JI-Children 195
Supplemental Instruction Where Jury is Unable to Agree
The court has been informed that the jury is unable to agree on a verdict. You are not
going to be kept here until you do agree, but you jurors are as competent to agree on a verdict
as the next jury that may be called to hear the same evidence and arguments that you have
heard.
You do not have to violate your individual judgment and conscience. However, you do
have the duty to be open-minded to discuss the evidence freely and fairly, to listen to the
arguments of your fellow jurors, and to examine your own position and to make a
conscientious effort to agree on a verdict.
Remember, agreement by ten (five) or more jurors is sufficient to become the verdict
of the jury. [If you can do so consistently with your duty as a juror, at least the same ten (five)
should agree in all the answers (as to a particular claim).] If possible, I ask you to be
unanimous.
At the bottom of the verdict, you will find a place provided where dissenting jurors, if
there be any, will sign their name or names and state the answer or answers with which they
do not agree. Either the blank lines or the space below them may be used for that purpose.
History
Wis JI-Children 195 (2018). ©2018, Regents, Univ. of Wis. Prepared by the Wisconsin Jury Instructions Committees of the Wisconsin Judicial Conference with the University of Wisconsin Law School; posted by the Wisconsin State Law Library with the University's permission.
Provenance
- Source
- wilawlibrary.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-24
- Edition
- 2026-09-24
- Content hash
e876c236e2a9d2604fb668d527eba03586f4113afe0ca54454c4eb4369407cfa
The link goes to the issuing authority’s own document — the one we read to produce this record. Where a source publishes whole titles rather than sections, your browser may need a moment to jump to the provision.
Unofficial copy of government-published law, reproduced from official sources with full provenance. Not an official publication; verify against official sources before relying on it in a filing. Records in the 'guidance' corpus, and only that corpus, are sub-regulatory (interpretive guidelines, survey procedures) and are not binding law. Validity bounds follow each jurisdiction's declared temporalBasis.