Then, when the case went to the jury, the judge excused one of the jurors, saying the juror had told him he had been accosted by masked men at his motel the night before the trial opened.

In 2010, a lawsuit filed in 2004 by the Log Cabin Republicans ( LCR ), the nation's largest Republican gay organization, went to trial.

Three weeks later Echols and Baldwin went on trial where the prosecution accused the three of committing a Satanic murder.

This emerged shortly before Reyn-Bardt went to trial, but he was convicted on the evidence of his confession.

Albert became the focus of a media frenzy in 1997, Albert went on trial for felony charges of forcible sodomy.

Nine days after the clinic opened, Sanger was arrested for breaking a New York state law that prohibited distribution of contraceptives, and went to trial in January 1917.

There was public outrage when the media reported that David Westerfield, in a high-profile murder case in San Diego in 2002, was negotiating a deal in which he would reveal the location of 7-year-old Danielle van Dam ’ s body in exchange for avoiding the death penalty: the deal fell through when her body was found, and the case went to trial.

So, rather than accept a guaranteed conviction, the case went to trial, at a cost of over $ 1 million, and high emotional cost to the van Dam family.

The Guardian reported that " some of his trial times were almost unbelievable ," and Nurmi went on to train at the Olympic Village in Los Angeles despite his injury.

In the overall body of RICO cases that went to trial, at least 50 % have had some non-US enforcement component to them.

The first production units went on trial in the Las Vegas Hilton Hotel.

In 1917, one hundred and sixty-five IWW leaders were arrested for conspiring to hinder the draft, encourage desertion, and intimidate others in connection with labor disputes, under the new Espionage Act ; one hundred and one went on trial before Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis in 1918.

John Scalise, along with Anselmi and Joseph ' Hop Toad ' Giunta, were murdered by Al Capone in May 1929, after Capone learned about their plan to kill him, and before he went to trial.

Dutroux went on trial in March 2004 and got a life sentence in prison.

On May 6, 1936, 150 members of the league went on trial and 143 of them were convicted to long-term prison sentences.

This would eventually lead to another court case, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, which went to trial on September 26, 2005 and was decided in U. S. District Court on December 20, 2005 in favor of the plaintiffs, who charged that a mandate that intelligent design be taught was an unconstitutional establishment of religion.

Unknown to Falcone the efforts to kill him were suspended while the Maxi trial verdicts went through the appeals process that had often set convicted Mafia members free.

Ratsiraka went on trial ( in absentia ) for embezzlement ( the authorities charged him with taking $ 8m of public money with him into exile ) and the court sentenced him to ten years ' hard labour.

Queen Mary herself went to trial at Fotheringhay Castle in Northamptonshire and denied her part in the plot, but her correspondence was the evidence ; therefore, Mary was sentenced to death.

The remaining five members of the Watergate Seven indicted in March went on trial in October 1974.

The suit eventually went to trial in 2002, and Bari's estate and Cherney were awarded $ 4. 4 million as compensation for violations of Bari's and Cherney's First Amendment and Fourth Amendment rights.

The Christian right has not supported the teaching of evolution in the past, but it does not have the ability to stop it being taught in public schools as was done during the Scopes Trial in Dayton, Tennessee, in which a science teacher went on trial for teaching about the subject of evolution in a public school.

In March the same year, Jenny Nicholson, a frequent contributor, wrote a piece on the Italian Socialist Party congress in Venice, which mentioned three Labour MPs " who puzzled the Italians by filling themselves like tanks with whisky and coffee …" All three sued for libel, the case went to trial and The Spectator was forced to make a large payment in damages and costs, a sum well over the equivalent of £ 150, 000 today.

Bored by his work, Lean spent every evening in the cinema, and in 1927, after an aunt had advised him to find a job he enjoyed doing, he went to Gaumont Studios where his obvious enthusiasm earned him a month's trial without pay.

After a nine-year struggle, due to the Bank's statutory immunity, the case went to trial in January 2004.

CBBS went online on February 16, 1978 in Chicago, Illinois.

Buddy – as it is abbreviated on occasion – is still running in the UK after 22 years, with a UK tour that went out in February 2011.

Despite his ill health, Haley began compiling notes for possible use as a basis for either a biographical film based on his life, or a published autobiography ( accounts differ ), and there were plans for him to record an album in Memphis, Tennessee, when the brain tumor began affecting his behavior and he went back to his home in Harlingen, Texas, where he died early in the morning of February 9, 1981.

The team went on to beat Whittier College on February 10, for its second SCIAC win, and placed its first member on the All Conference team.

On the morning of 29 February 2012, Jones went to tend his 14 horses at a farm in Indiantown, Florida.

The British Ministry of Defence and Clarence House made a joint announcement on 22 February 2007 that Prince Harry would be deployed with his regiment to the front line in Iraq, to serve as part of the 1st Mechanised Brigade of the 3rd Mechanised Divisiona move supported by Harry, who had stated that he would leave the army if he was told to remain in safety while his regiment went to war ; he said: " There's no way I'm going to put myself through Sandhurst and then sit on my arse back home while my boys are out fighting for their country.

Another Irgun bomb went off in the Ramla market on February 18, killing 7 residents and injuring 45.

KSR went out of business in February 1994 when their stock was delisted from the stock exchange.

Mary Bergman died February 14, 1953, aboard a National Airlines DC-6 which went down in the Gulf of Mexico during a thunderstorm on a flight from Tampa to New Orleans.

Nobel Prize-winning physicist Hans Bethe went to Livermore in February 1983 for a two-day briefing on the X-ray laser, and " Although impressed with its scientific novelty, Bethe went away highly skeptical it would contribute anything to the nation's defense.

Aimee Semple McPherson began her radio broadcasts in the early 1920s and even purchased her own station, KFSG which went on the air in February 1924 ; by the mid-1930s, controversial radio priest Father Charles Coughlin's radio broadcasts were reaching millions per week.

In February 1860, he went to England for the New York Illustrated News to depict one of the major sporting events of the era, the prize fight between the American John C. Heenan and the English Thomas Sayers sponsored by George Wilkes, publisher of Wilkes ' Spirit of the Times.

Disney went to New York in February 1928 to negotiate a higher fee per short and was shocked when Mintz told him that not only did he want to reduce the fee he paid Disney per short but also that he had most of his main animators, including Harman, Ising, Maxwell, and Freleng — but not Iwerks, who refused to leave Disney — under contract and would start his own studio if Disney did not accept the reduced production budgets.

NEAR went into a 321 x 366 km elliptical orbit around Eros on February 14.

Although the Riksdag of the Estates of 1840 meditated compelling him to abdicate, Charles John survived that abdication controversy and he went on to have his silver jubilee, which was celebrated with great enthusiasm on 18 February 1843.

He achieved the rank of seaman second class, but never went to sea and was discharged in February 1919.

Catherine went to England with her new husband and was crowned queen in Westminster Abbey on 23 February 1421.

In February 1984, Doe Maar went into the studio to record their fifth album ; however, the band couldn't get into the recording, and during a crisis meeting on February 13 they decided to call it a day.

On February 16, 1990, Cisco Systems went public ( with a market capitalization of $ 224 million ) and was listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange.

Navarro and de Court went on to Toulon, where they remained till February 1744.

Later that year, he went to London as Deputy United States Delegate to the Preparatory Commission of the United Nations Organization, a position he held until February 1946.

Perhaps his best performance of the season came on 2 February 1997 when Newcastle went into the final 15 minutes of the game 3 – 1 down at home to Leicester City in the league, only for Shearer to win them the game 4 – 3 by scoring a late hat-trick.

In their 37 games ( including the 3-1 victory on February 11, 1995 against the New Jersey Devils ), the Flyers went 25 – 9 – 3 and outscored their opponents 128 – 98 enroute.