Word: mistrial
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...group of citizens, including lawyers who assisted the Agrava panel, plans to ask the Supreme Court to declare a mistrial. The group cites, for instance, the alleged role of one of the judges in orchestrating the cross-examination of a key prosecution witness who had testified that she saw Aquino being shot by a soldier standing behind him as he stepped off the plane. The defendants maintain that Aquino was shot instead by a lone Communist gunman named Rolando Galman, who was killed by security guards immediately afterward...
...Friday, the judge gave the state three more days to locate Isles, and told the defense to be ready with its side of the case. The missing mistress also prompted Von Bulow's attorneys to offer their fourth request for a mistrial, based on the prosecution's opening statement that previewed Isles' expected testimony...
...different result in the November vote came on the heels of Piro's highly publicized federal extortion and conspiracy trial. Piro was granted a mistrial on October 13 after he claimed that he was entrapped in an FBI sting operation...
Piro, who faced a mistrial last month on extortion and conspiracy charges, denied he is headed for defeat in his attempt to move up from the House to the Senate. "I'm not beaten yet and this election is not over," an angry Piro said last night...
Piro, indicted on attempted extortion and conspiracy charges, was granted a mistrial October 13, after he pleaded entrapment...