Word: mistrial
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...along without intent to kidnap. This last argument, especially, was fairly flimsy stuff, since one of the car owners testified that he was held at gunpoint. At week's end, while the jury was still out, Judge Brandler began hearings that the defense hopes will lead to a mistrial or a reversal on appeal. The issue: that before the trial began one member of the jury had declared the Harrises obviously were guilty...
...first U.S. Senator in 50 years to be criminally indicted while in office, was found not guilty of bribery, of taking unlawful compensation, and of three counts of lying to a grand jury. The jurors disagreed on a fourth perjury count and a conspiracy charge. Judge Krentzman declared a mistrial on those two charges, and federal prosecutors seemed reluctant to pursue the matter further. Said Gurney of the jury's verdict: "Thank heaven...
...boxes of wiretap data on Ellsberg. When William Matthew Byrne Jr., the judge in Ellsberg's trial, learned of the wiretaps and was advised of the break-in at the office of Dr. Lewis Fielding, Ellsberg's psychiatrist, he dismissed all charges against Ellsberg and declared a mistrial because of Government misconduct. Possibly the President wanted to cover up all the wiretap data in order to keep secret the surveillance material on Ellsberg, so as not to damage the Government's case against...
...setback, the defense was frustrated in its efforts to have a mistrial declared. Two FBI agents with an attache case full of electronic gear had been discovered poised over telephone circuits next door to the defense attorneys' conference room. The defense claimed the agents were bugging their lines. Judge Winston Arnow, a tough, conservative Lyndon Johnson appointee, who has shown little patience with either defense or prosecution tactics, ruled last week there had been no bugging. When the Gainesville case goes to the jury it will face a decision not unfamiliar in conspiracy trials: Was the strange plot planned...
...defense objected to Lemmer's unexpected charges that drugs had been used in financing the training program. Defense lawyers said that the testimony is inflamatory and immaterial to the case. One defense attorney asked for a mistrial on these grounds...