Dixon trial jurors not quite ready for Allen charge 

Posted: 7:00 pm Sun, November 22, 2009
By Danny Jacobs

The three paragraphs potentially have the power to break up a deadlocked jury. No wonder the Allen charge is sometimes called “the dynamite charge.” As jurors in Mayor Shelia A. Dixon’s criminal trial left Baltimore City Circuit Court after their second day of deliberations Friday, Visiting Judge Dennis M. Sweeney advised them to take a mental ...