court’s own instance. If, upon the poll, there is no unanimous concurrence, the jury may be directed to retire for further deliberations or may be discharged. If the verdict is unanimous, it shall be recorded. This court has addressed the procedural aspects of jury polling once before, but only cursorily. See State v. Russell, 733 P.2d 162 (Utah 1987). Our analysis, therefore, relies on other jurisdictions for guidance. ¶ 12 The purpose of jury polling is to “determine that the verdict signed by the foreman is that of the individual jurors and not one that has been coerced or caused by mistake.” Russell, 733 P. Cir.1978) (stating that the trial judge “is in the best position to be aware of whatever happens” during jury poll); Amos v. United States, 496 F.2d 1269, 1272 (8th Cir.1974) (<HOLDING>); M.J. Greene, Annotation, Juror’s Reluctant,
holding that the applicable rule of procedure vests a successor judge with judicial discretion to review the jury verdict on a motion for new trial on the ground that such verdict was contrary to the weight of the evidence where the record clearly discloses that no question of the credibility of the witnesses or the weight to be given to their testimony will require resolution by him holding that trial court did not err in declining to accept jurys first verdict when form stated that the jury found the defendant undecided and trial courts interpretation of the verdict form to mean that the jury was either not unanimous or had not decided yet whether defendant was guilty or not guilty was reasonable and thus trial court properly instructed jury to continue deliberating holding that where a jury fails to return unanimous answers to some of the questions on a special verdict form the trial judge can enter judgment on the basis of the unanimous verdicts if they are dispositive of the case holding jury trial waiver valid although district court did not inform defendant of right to unanimous verdict holding that federal rule of criminal procedure 31d grants the trial judge a measure of discretion in determining either to require the jury to deliberate further or to grant a mistrial if it appears that the verdict was not unanimous