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...getting to and from court. Most continue to draw salaries from their pretrial employers. Four jurors have been excused for illness or injury since the trial began. The original juror panel of 18 is now down to 14, including two alternates. If the number falls below twelve, a mistrial is likely. Carr charges Monsanto with scheming to force one through a strategy of "delay, delay and more delay...
Critics say Monsanto appears determined to make it prohibitively expensive and time consuming for plaintiffs, both present and future, to sue. It has moved for mistrial 31 times so far, and sought dismissal of the case for "impermissible forum shopping" in moving it from Missouri to Illinois...
...accusations, and vindictive, vicious mothers who coach and work on their children." One of the stories he told the conventioners was about a girl, 16, who went to a school official and said her father had molested her. A criminal proceeding costing the father $10,000 ended in a mistrial. When the father learned that the girl had kept a diary, he got legal access to it and found she had written about her intention to accuse him falsely. An allegation of sexual abuse, said Hirschfeld, "is the nuclear weapon of domestic relations. When all else fails, drop the bomb...
...celebrate last week as juries declined to convict them of white-collar crimes. Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards declared himself a winner after a New Orleans jury deadlocked on racketeering and fraud charges related to a hospital investment scheme that netted Edwards $1.9 million between terms as Governor. A mistrial was declared ^ after seven days of deliberation because two jurors held out for conviction on most of the 50 counts. In New York, Thomas Reed, a former Air Force Secretary and Reagan assistant, was acquitted of profiting in the stock market through illegal insider information, allegedly from Gordon Reed, his father...
...series of indictments brought against him by U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani. At the time of his death, the soft-spoken don was on trial in Manhattan federal court for masterminding an international car-theft ring. The day after his murder, Castellano's co-defendants asked for a mistrial, citing the possible prejudice that could result from the public assassination. Castellano had also been scheduled to go on trial this spring with other purported leaders of the city's five Mafia families, accused of running the "Commission," which since 1931 has sanctioned murders and directed rackets across...