Word: mistrial
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...second Whitewater trial acquitted two Arkansas bankers on four counts of conspiring to illegally use bank money to fund Bill Clinton's 1990 bid for governor. The jury remained hopelessly deadlocked on the remaining seven counts against Herby Branscum Jr. and Robert M. Hilland and the judge declared a mistrial on those charges. That action leaves open the possibility that Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr could call for a retrial on those charges. What the bankers can not be retried for is the charge that they conspired to conceal from the IRS $52,500 in cash withdrawals drawn from the Clinton...
CONVICTED. LYLE MENENDEZ, 28, and his brother ERIK, 25; of first-degree murder in the 1989 shotgun killings of parents Jose and Kitty; in Los Angeles. The first time, the brothers were tried in simultaneous courtroom proceedings with separate juries. Deliberations were deadlocked, and a mistrial was declared. This time, a single jury accepted the prosecution's argument that the pair executed their mother and father in order to tap into the family fortune, rejecting the defense's contention that the killings were a response to abuse...
...jury was unable to reach a verdict on four separate indictments of extortion and a mistrial was declared on those counts...
According to Womack's lawyer Lee P. Johnson, the district attorney and judge agreed that a mistrial was appropriate given the amount of time the jury was taking to decide the four extortion counts...
...mistrial was declared, one of the alternate jurors in the case told Alex Michelini of the Daily News that she didn't know whom to believe--King, who "couldn't have been telling the whole truth," or Maffia, who "had it in for Don." The alternate also revealed that she had discussed the case with two of the regular jurors, one of whom is an attorney, on a subway ride home earlier in the week--an apparent violation of court instructions not to discuss deliberations. That alone would have been grounds for a mistrial, according to lead prosecutor Paul Gardephe...