Word: mistrial
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...holdout in Daniel Flood's bribery case causes a mistrial...
...benefit of the doubt. Back in the jury room, the majority for a conviction now shifted to a majority for acquittal, first 7 to 5, then 9 to 3. The following day, the eleventh day, Thomas announced that the jurors were hopelessly deadlocked, and Judge Turner declared a mistrial. This week Dr. Waddill, who is also being sued for $17 million by Mary Weaver, returns to court to learn whether he will be tried all over again. The jurors, however, are finished. The day after the mistrial was declared, Kathy Davis got married, with four of the other jurors...
...week's end, police had no solution. Meanwhile, the judge declared a mistrial on the original obscenity charges, and authorities were considering dropping them altogether...
...sidelines. To help his case, Smith brought in Sportscaster Howard Cosell, who told a Tampa, Fla., courtroom that after his accident Smith was "a shell of a player." It was all too much for the jury, which couldn't come to a decision. The judge declared a mistrial...
...told him, "but $20 million just walked out of it." Flynt is not so sure. "I read somewhere that 92% of the people believe in God," he said. "There aren't that many who believe in pornography." Screw Publisher Al Goldstein, whose own obscenity prosecution ended in a mistrial this month, phoned Flynt from New York to see if his friend was still sane. Flynt told him calmly: "The Big Boy upstairs is on our side...