Word: mistrial
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vegetable Life. When he was appointed to the Communist trial, he suspected what he was in for. He had studied the Washington sedition case of 1944 when the harassments of lawyers for the defense had exhausted Judge Edward C. Eicher, who died during the case, causing a mistrial. The well-ordered Judge Medina vowed that wouldn't happen...
...courtroom where for 32 patience-grinding weeks eleven Communist leaders have been on trial for conspiring to teach and advocate overthrow of the U.S. Government by force, defense lawyers melodramatically moved for a mistrial. They charged that the pudgy, moonfaced man occupying seat No. 2 in the jury box had flagrantly violated his duty as a juror. At the very least, the defense added, the juror should be removed from the jury...
Next day, Judge Medina denied the motion for mistrial and announced that garrulous Juror Janney would keep his seat. What was more, the judge added, he was fed up with the noisy Communist picket lines outside the courthouse and the cascade of telegrams and letters poured in on him by Communist sympathizers. "I will not be intimidated," he said...
...question of Judge Kaufman's conduct had been raised during the trial, but had been muted in the press for fear of causing a mistrial. Part of the criticism could be traced to Judge Kaufman's own history. New on the federal bench, he had been put in charge of the calendar for May (a rotating position) and had assigned himself to the Hiss trial. He had been recommended for a judgeship by Tammany Hall and by Bronx Boss Ed Flynn; nominated by Harry Truman, and confirmed by the 81st Congress-though Kaufman was refused endorsement...
...weeks the eleven Communists on trial in Manhattan for conspiracy had hankered after martyrdom or a mistrial. Their lawyers had repeatedly raked Federal Judge Harold R. Medina with harsh and measured spite. Sometimes, when their tactics seemed to be getting to him, the judge would leave the courtroom, his face suffused with anger, to compose himself. Last week, at long last, he decided it was time to "reduce the disorder" in his court...