UJI 13-1904 NMRA
UJI 13-1904. Jury deadlocked.
It is your duty, as jurors, to consult with one another and to deliberate with a view
toward reaching an agreement, if you can do so without violence to your individual
judgments. Each of you must decide the case for yourself, but you should do so only
after a consideration of the case with your fellow jurors, and you should not hesitate to
change an opinion when convinced that it is erroneous. However, you should not be
influenced to vote in any way on any question submitted to you by the single fact that a
majority of the jurors, or any of them, favors such a decision. In other words, you should
not surrender your honest convictions concerning the effect or weight of the evidence
for the mere purpose of returning a verdict, or solely because of the opinions of the
other jurors.
I hope that, after further deliberation, you may be able to agree upon a verdict. That
is why we try cases, to try to dispose of them and to reach a common conclusion, if you
can do so, consistent with the consciences of the individual members of the jury. The
court suggests that, in deliberating, you each recognize that you are not infallible, that
you listen to the opinion of the other jurors and that you do so conscientiously with a
view to reaching a common conclusion, if you can.