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In appeals from final judgments for child custody, you have 15 days from the date shown in the clerk's certificate of distribution at the bottom of the final judgment, decree or decision to file a Notice of Appeal.
The jury will be told when they first retire that they must reach a unanimous verdict. Since 1974 juries have been allowed, in certain circumstances, to reach a majority verdict. This is a verdict of 11-1 or 10-2.f there are 9 or fewer jurors then the verdict has to be unanimous. The minimum period of time that the jury have to have been thinking about their verdict (âin retirementâ) before a jury can return a majority verdict is 2 hours 10 minutes. In practice, Judges will give a jury longer than that.