Word: mistrial
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...views were morally defeated. The narrator then described the aftermath of the trial, including the death of Bryan just five days after the verdict was issued. “And in our conclusion of the performance, we talk about the fact that even though the trial was declared a mistrial, it spread the dampening of Darwinism throughout much of the Bible belt,” Asner said in an interview with The Crimson. “Not until the Russians put Sputnik up did we realize that our teaching of science was becoming slapdash,” he added. Director...
Fitzgerald's rise began in 1988 when he joined the prestigious U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan. In 1992 he prosecuted brothers John and Joseph Gambino, two of New York's biggest Mafia leaders. The case ended in a mistrial, which threw Fitzgerald into a funk, but his outlook brightened in 1994 when the Gambinos pleaded guilty to drug trafficking. That same year U.S. Attorney White picked Fitzgerald to prosecute Omar Abdel Rahman, the "Blind Sheik," for plotting with nine associates to blow up New York City landmarks. Rahman was sentenced to life in prison, and Fitzgerald developed a reputation...
...Stammering at points in his arguments with the judge and looking extremely frustrated, Army prosecutor Capt Scott Van Sweringen asked for the mistrial after Judge Head, having personally questioned Watada about the stipulation, ruled that he was going to reject the agreement and tell the jurors that is should be disregarded. The judge himself seemed to urge a mistrial request at that point, saying of his direction to the jurors: "How do you un-ring that bell...
...that in any case he would file an immediate motion to dismiss the case whenever it was finally reconvened. "It is my opinion that Lieut. Watada cannot be tried again because of the effect of double jeopardy," he said, contending that because it was prosecutors who asked for the mistrial, and because the judge granted the mistrial over the opposition of defense lawyers, the prosecutors could not subsequently retry Watada...
...Seitz said Watada was frustrated that the case had ended in a mistrial rather than a verdict, but he also said of the case: "I do not believe it will ever be resurrected...