So if the unthinkable happens and we have a hung jury…. Does she walk? Or is she still held on remand while the CPS decide on a retrial or not?
It doesn’t bear thinking about does it, she won’t walk, the CPS will have to decide what charges they’re going to go for a retrial on, but then she’ll probably appeal being held on remand.
Even then, a retrial will cost so much more money that I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if the CPS suddenly discontinued a lot of their caseload, under the guise of not enough evidence but really to recoup money.
Anyway, that’s an entirely hypothetical scenario and we shouldn’t worry about that without facts, she’s still more likely than not to be going down forever.