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...based may itself be unconstitutional. Last week U.S. District Judge Julius J. Hoffman raised a whole new set of volatile issues. Incensed at Black Panther Bobby Scale, the defiant defendant whom Hoffman had ordered gagged and manacled to his chair, the 74-year-old judge suddenly declared a mistrial for Seale and found him guilty on 16 charges of contempt of court. Without much further ado, Hoffman sentenced Seale to three months in prison on each count - a total of four years...
...Thomas Lambert of the American Trial Lawyers Association notes, "the glory of the jury is its beautiful lawlessness." It represents "the yeasty independence of the average man over officialdom." Perhaps mindful of such thoughts, Judge Lurie decided to give Solana the benefit of his doubt. He declared a mistrial and will start all over again with a new jury...
...mistrial was declared in criminal court when an attorney for the students, John Lockridge, Jr., became ill. The trial of the accused students gets underway this week...
...request by the defense attorney was an extraordinary one. On trial was a young Filipino mother, Antonia Thomas, accused of murdering her six-day-old infant by feeding it some caustic substance from a baby bottle. She had already been found guilty in the killing once, but a mistrial had been declared. Between the trials, Defense Lawyer Dudley Gray had read in TIME (Dec. 29) about Thomas Kidwell, an accused wife killer who was shown to a jury on video tape; under a so-called truth drug, he had relived the apparent fact that his wife had shot him first...
After a few minutes, the state attorney passed a note to the bench: "The No. 1 juror is either ill or under the influence. He has not opened his eyes since coming into the courtroom." The astounded judge had Shead awakened. Then he angrily declared a mistrial and sentenced the surprised juror to 30 days for contempt of court. Shead was immediately packed off to the county jail, and last week the judge ordered a hearing to determine whether he should be transferred to an alcoholic rehabilitation center...