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Jury in trial against Roman Storm says it's deadlocked on some charges. Court asked jury to reconsider – if deadlock remains, the court will accept a partial verdict. Government may re-try remaining charges.

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The legal system is a bit opaque to me.

Eli5 what this would mean for him?

I'm assuming if the government retries some of the charges that he would remain in jail until such charges were tried again.

What about partial verdicts?

How is that not double jeopardy? Or is that just because it’s a partial verdict?

The ones who enforce the rules make the rules.

That's exactly what came to my mind.

I wondered the same. What's a partial verdict anyway?