State v. Rickerson

OPINION

PAYNE, Justice.

Rickerson was charged with criminal sexual penetration of a minor. At trial the jury was instructed on both the crimes of criminal sexual penetration of a minor and a lesser included offense of criminal sexual contact of a minor. After several hours of deliberation and four or five votes the jury informed the court that they could not agree on a verdict. The judge reassembled the jurors in the courtroom and asked the foreman to tell him, without divulging whether the vote was for or against conviction, what the numerical results of the voting had been. He was informed…