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...which imposes up to $150,000 in penalties for each instance of willful copyright infringement. Approximately 30,000 people have settled fines averaging $3,000 to $12,000 out of court since the law's passage in 1999. The first case tried in court ended in a mistrial...

Author: By Athena Y. Jiang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Prof To Argue Against File-Sharing Law | 7/27/2009 | See Source »

...year and a half after Phil Spector's first murder case ended in a mistrial, the record producer was found guilty on April 13 of the shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson. Through months of testimony (and a seemingly never-ending parade of bizarre hairdos and wigs), Spector has maintained his innocence. On May 29 he was sentenced to 19 years in prison. It's only the latest in a lifetime full of spectacular achievements and mind-swimmingly bizarre events...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Phil Spector | 5/29/2009 | See Source »

...twins who had kidnapped their victim together. A year earlier in Boston, a suspected rapist blamed his identical twin when confronted with the matching DNA. Although he was already serving a sentence for a rape conviction, the jury could not agree on a verdict, and the judge declared a mistrial. Earlier this year, an identical twin suspected of drug-smuggling and sentenced to death in Malaysia was set free when the court could not prove beyond doubt whether he or his brother had committed the crime. (Read a TIME cover story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Despite DNA Evidence, Twins Charged in Heist Go Free | 3/23/2009 | See Source »

After an earlier mistrial, five former leaders of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development were found guilty of funneling some $12 million to Hamas. A jury convicted the group on 108 criminal counts, including money-laundering--a resounding victory for the Bush Administration in the biggest terrorism-funding case since 9/11. The defendants maintained that Holy Land is a humanitarian organization, and say they will appeal the verdict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

12/14/07: The case of former Harvard graduate student Alexander Pring-Wilson, who was charged with manslaughter in 2003, is declared a mistrial. In January, Pring-Wilson pleads guilty...

Author: By John R. Macartney, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Timeline: The Last Four Years | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

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