You have a duty to consult with one another with an open mind and to deliberate with a view to reaching a verdict. Each of you should decide the case for yourself, but only after impartially considering the evidence with your fellow jurors. You should not surrender your own opinion or defer to the opinions of your fellow jurors for the mere purpose of returning a verdict, but you should not hesitate to reexamine your own view and change your opinion if you are persuaded by another view. Your verdict, whatever it is, must be unanimous. I have a few thoughts that you may wish to consider in your deliberations, along with the evidence and the instructions previously given to you.
Every case is important to the parties involved.
But if you should fail to agree upon a verdict, the case is left open and undecided. Like all cases, it must be disposed of in some way. There is little to believe that another trial would not be equally time-consuming and expensive to all persons involved, and there is little reason to think that the case can be tried again better or more exhaustively than it has been in this trial. Any future jury must be selected in the same manner and from the same source as you have been chosen. So it's unlikely that the case could ever be submitted to twelve men and women more intelligent, more impartial, or more competent to decide it.