Word: mistrial
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thus assured of the wisdom of his action, Judge Boldt last week dealt with the "Seattle Seven"-the young protesters accused of conspiring to damage a federal courthouse in Seattle last winter. After declaring a mistrial in the Tacoma proceedings, Judge Boldt summarily convicted the seven of contempt, and ordered them to serve one or more six-month jail terms. Then he adamantly refused to grant bail to the defendants...
...odds are overwhelming that he was trapped in the flooding, but rumors proliferated anyway. Some newsmen remembered Hughes saying of Manson, "I'm afraid of him." One inevitable speculation was that Manson followers had kidnaped or killed the attorney. Or perhaps Hughes had disappeared to gain a mistrial and severance from the other defendants for his client, Leslie Van Houten, against whom the prosecution's case is generally considered weakest...
...trial began, would not learn of Nixon's remarks. The windows of the jury bus were whited over with Bon Ami so that no juror could glimpse the headline on street newsstands. If the jury discovered Nixon's verdict, the defense might have grounds for a mistrial. His efforts were to no avail. Next day Manson himself displayed a copy of the Times to the jury for some ten seconds before a bailiff grabbed the newspaper from his hands. Judge Older called a recess, then questioned the jurors one by one to satisfy himself that their judgment would...
Defense attorneys for Manson, Leslie Van Houten, and Susan Atkins-who face charges of murder stemming from the mass killings last August of actress Sharon Tate and six other persons-moved for a mistrial yesterday after learning that Nixon had said that Manson was "guilty, directly or indirectly, of eight murders without reason...
...Sacramento against a proposed gun-control law being debated in the Legislature (he was later given three years probation): on Feb. 25, 1967, for conspiracy to commit murder (charges were later dropped): once, in 1968, on conspiracy charges connected with the 1968 Chicago demonstrations (the case was declared a mistrial but Seale was given four years for contempt of court); and finally, on August 19, for murder, kidnapping, unlawful flight to avoid prosecution...