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Jury Deliberation Time---(from YMB)

For those who are interested there's an article from citeseer which examines the factors affecting the length of time a jury deliberates. Just google average time for jury deliberation.

Some key points:
- A civil case deliberation is most likely to finish around the 380-400 minute mark
- Gender doesn't have a significant effect on deliberation time
- If there are multiple charges, the jury takes longer
- If the jury decides to award damages, deliberation takes longer
- The higher the damages awarded, the longer the jury takes to reach a verdict
- Juries that find in favour of the plaintiff take longer to reach a verdict

- The average length of time for a 6-person jury case is only 81.5 minutes, for a 12-person jury it's 121.5 minutes. Having said that, the graph they show indicates that deliberation is most likely to finish around the 420-430 minute mark for a 12 person jury.
- For big damages to be awarded deliberation is most likely to be finished around the 390 minute mark
- For small damages to be awarded, deliberation is most likely to finish around the 100, 260 and the 370 minute mark
- Unanimous decisions are most likely to occur at the 440 minute mark

The paper is well written and backed up with statistical evidence. In the recent Apple vs. Samsung case, the jury took 21 hours and ended up awarding over 1B dollars, this supports the findings of the paper; jury deliberation is longer when they find in favour of the plaintiff, the decide to award damages, they decide to award large damages.