compromise verdict

To avoid a disagreement and a new trial, a compromise verdict was arrived at.

Lawyers for the city, Patricia Miller and Frank M. Esposito, both said they saw the low damages as a compromise verdict.

A jury sentenced McCoy on a compromise verdict of manslaughter.

His mother, Carol DiPaolo, saw the jury's action as a "compromise" verdict because "it's easier to find an institution liable and not a person."

That request was an obvious effort to forestall a compromise verdict.

Ever since the prosecutors added the new perjury counts in March, the defense has been presented with the risk of a compromise verdict.

But the defense, taking a major gamble, rejected not only a plea bargain but also the idea of a compromise verdict of manslaughter.

In what is believed to have been a compromise verdict, McCoy was convicted of manslaughter.

Jurors disputed an inference that manslaughter may have been a compromise verdict.

By midafternoon on the third day, the debate over a compromise verdict of manslaughter had become testy, and several positions had hardened.