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* Conversely, granting a mistrial in a criminal case if the defendant objects, unless the grant was necessary to correct manifest injustice
In 1935, Harry was put on trial ; after a mistrial, Harry sold the company's movie theaters, at least for a short time, and the case was never reopened.
After a mistrial due to a hung jury, Hiss was tried a second time.
A mistrial was declared on 20 January, 2003, over " issues of national security " involving " two witnesses, a document and a video ".
This time, there was no mistrial declared and Ribic was convicted.
Olson also argued that the violation of the plea bargain was grounds for a mistrial.
CAIR stated that the reason for the mistrial, and no convictions on any of the charges, was that the charges were built on " fear, not facts.
On September 26, 2007, the case was declared a mistrial because the jury was hung 10 to 2 for conviction.
Marler's first trial, which was handled by a different prosecutor, had ended in a deadlocked jury and a mistrial.
Gotti's trial ultimately ended in a mistrial due to a hung jury and the boss was freed from jail.
" But one of the few jurors who believed Al-Arian was guilty on nine counts, causing a mistrial, said: Like another person on the jury, I was convinced Mr. Al-Arian was still working with the PIJ after it was illegal.
The case was eventually declared a mistrial, and criminal investigation reopened, though a second suit has thus far brought no claims against Knight directly.
" Leibowitz objected that the argument was " an appeal to passion and prejudice " and moved for a mistrial.
WBC said that it was thankful for the verdict, but also unsuccessfully sought a mistrial ( based on alleged prejudicial statements made by the judge and violations of the gag order by the plaintiff's attorney ) and also filed an appeal.
After an initial mistrial of all of the black defendants, Henry Sweet – who admitted that he fired the weapon which killed a member of the mob surrounding Dr. Sweet's home and was retried separately – was acquitted by an all-white jury on grounds of the right of self-defense.
On November 21 of 2006 a mistrial was declared due to a hung jury, which was unable to reach a unanimous verdict.

mistrial and declared
His first trial began on July 13, 2011, but on the second day of testimony the judge in the case declared a mistrial over prosecutorial misconduct after prosecutors showed the jury prejudicial evidence they had been told not to show.
When the required number of jurors cannot agree on a verdict ( a situation sometimes referred to as a hung jury ), a mistrial is declared, and the case may be retried with a newly constituted jury.
The movie, in which he is portrayed by James Spader, documents Ellsberg's life, starting with his work for RAND Corp and ending with the day on which the judge declared his espionage trial a mistrial.
The defense also attempted unsuccessfully to have a mistrial declared based on Maloney's closing remarks.
When a unanimous decision is not reached and the jury feels that one is not possible, they declare themselves a ' hung jury ', a mistrial is declared and the trial will have to be redone at the discretion of the plaintiff.
After scolding the jurors for not following his instructions, the judge declared a mistrial on the remaining charges.
Hawkins declared a mistrial.
The judge, Michael J. Virga, declared a mistrial when the jury said further deliberations would not change their minds.
After fifty-nine hours of deliberations, the jury declared a mistrial, in 1972.
There were two succeeding trials in 1874 ; in the first, one man was acquitted, while a mistrial was declared in the cases of the other eight.
Such actions will usually lead to a mistrial being declared and after any penalties for the involved parties a new trial will take place on the same matter.
At her trial in May 2005, Colonel James Pohl declared a mistrial on the grounds that he could not accept her plea of guilty under a plea-bargain to a charge of conspiring with Spc.
Boldt declared a mistrial on December 10, citing all defendants for contempt of court.
The eventual trial of these three was declared by the presiding judge to be a mistrial due to a hung jury.
One of the issues with the trial was that if it had been held in an American court with standard United States of American federal standards on jurisprudence, then the mock trials used for obtaining statements and confessions alone would have placed the trial in serious jeopardy of being declared a mistrial or having the charges thrown out of court entirely.
Midway through the trial the government's investigators discovered Burns ' agents, and a mistrial was immediately declared.
In April 1984, however, the jury deadlocked and a mistrial was declared.
On May 15, 1961, the judge declared a mistrial.
" His first trial was declared a mistrial.

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Sotomayor noted that events such as Juror 8 entering a similar knife into the proceeding, doing outside research into the case matter in the first place, and ultimately the jury as a whole making broad, wide ranging assumptions far beyond the scope of reasonable doubt ( such as the inferences regarding the " Old Woman " wearing glasses ) would never be allowed to occur in a real life jury situation, and would in fact have yielded a mistrial.
Ellsberg and Russo were not acquitted of violating the Espionage Act, but were freed due to a mistrial based on irregularities in the government's case.
In the United States, the result is a mistrial, and the case may be retried.
In the United States, if there is a mistrial, or the case is overturned on appeal, generally this is without prejudice and ( in the case of decision overturned on appeal ) either all of the case is retried, or, if not all of the case is overturned, the parts that were overturned ( like a sentencing hearing ) are retried.
Greenhill's case ends in a mistrial, after the jury fails to reach a unanimous verdict.
In the end of the storyline ( when the judge declares a mistrial ), Uatu appears one last time to show the outcome of the case: Galactus devouring Earth.
A mistrial was called in 2007, and the case was finally dismissed in April 2008.
The Crown brought a motion to remove Justice Anderson from the case, and ask for a mistrial, stemming from Anderson calling the province's director of public prosecutions, Martin Herschorn, requesting lead crown prosecutor Herman Felderhof be removed for incompetence.
On November 8, 2004, the case against Roper ended in a mistrial, with-according to her spokeswoman-eight jurors finding her not guilty, three finding her guilty, with one juror undecided.
After a mistrial occurred, Warner sold the company's movie theaters, at least for a short time, and the case was never reopened.
The case was declared a mistrial, but there was some residual damage to Sid's reputation.
At the end of the episode, Parker tacitly acknowledges to Briscoe that he used his contacts in his old precinct to engineer the shooting death of a key prosecution witness in his son's case ( resulting in a mistrial ).
The first case had ended in a mistrial with a hung jury.
At this point, Judge Murphy dismissed the deadlocked jury and declared the court case a mistrial.
The case finally ended in a mistrial after the death of the presiding judge, Edward C. Eicher.

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