If a defendant is found guilty, the defense attorney may request that the jury be polled. The judge asks each juror whether the verdict reached was their individual verdict, whether it was their verdict in the jury room and whether it still is their verdict. Benefield v. State, 278 Ga. 464 (2004). The failure to request that the jury be polled is not grounds for an ineffective assistance of counsel claim. Davis v. State, 311 Ga. App. 699 (2011); Marshall v. State, 285 Ga. 351 (2009).
The purpose in polling the jury is to insure that each juror agrees to the verdict and see if there was any coercion in the deliberation process. Cartwright
v. State, 291 Ga. 498 (2012).