Word: mistrial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crime has a right to a fair and impartial trial. Every individual who has a case in court has a right to a fair and impartial trial and the court, having reached this conclusion that the remarks were not only inopportune but not justified, at this time declares a mistrial in this case and the jury will be discharged...
Last November, what was to have been the third Lamson trial fizzled in a mistrial because two names were unaccountably missing from the jury panel...
...hands and intoned: "Dear Jesus, help me this morning to be truthful and honest and to show my cause is just and that I have been unfairly dealt with. Help the jurors to see the light, we ask in Thy name. Amen." Judge Roby Nesmith promptly declared a mistrial, dismissed the jury...
...businessmen and a Negro dentist by charging that Defendant Shushan had exacted personal tribute of 2? per cubic yard from the contractors who dredged the fill for his airport and seawalls. When the quiet, incisive prosecutor twice referred to these payments as "graft," Counsel Wilkinson leaped up, demanded a mistrial. He was overruled. On the stand a string of dredging company officials supported and elaborated the Government's charge, pieced together a devious tale of threats and intimidation, of large cash sums passed quietly to Shushan or his go-betweens. Loudly Counsel Wilkinson protested that these "rebates" were simply...
...would-be lynchers turned tail under the blast, Judge Coleman hastily declared a mistrial, ruefully admitted that the attempt to prosecute the case at Shelbyville was "a mistake." Guardsmen wrapped puttees around Negro Harris' trembling legs, clapped a gas mask over his black face, covered his shabby sweater with a militia greatcoat, rushed him out to an automobile. Determined officers sped the blackamoor to Nashville and safety. Their job done, the troops marched out to the edge of Shelbyville and pitched camp...