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...When a Honolulu jury was unable to settle a narcotics case during its first day of deliberation, Federal Judge J. Frank McLaughlin was forced to declare a mistrial-hotels were so jammed with tourists that court attaches could find no place to house the jurors overnight...
...TIME, July 11, 1949) was still dragging through New Jersey courts. The six Negroes convicted of the crime got a new trial in February 1951, after the state supreme court decided that they had been denied their due rights under law (e.g., the jury was improperly charged). After a mistrial, four of the defendants were finally acquitted, two were sent to prison for life. Last week, the New Jersey supreme court ruled that the lower court had erred again, ordered a fourth trial for the last two defendants...
...even without physical contact, sentenced Ingram to two years in jail (TIME. July 23, 1951). Last November, Ingram's appeal went before a mixed jury (four Negroes, eight whites) in a state superior court; when two of the Negro jurors held out for acquittal, the court ordered a mistrial...
...Vegetable Life. When he was appointed to the Communist trial, he suspected what he was in for. He had studied the Washington sedition case of 1944 when the harassments of lawyers for the defense had exhausted Judge Edward C. Eicher, who died during the case, causing a mistrial. The well-ordered Judge Medina vowed that wouldn't happen...
Next day, Judge Medina denied the motion for mistrial and announced that garrulous Juror Janney would keep his seat. What was more, the judge added, he was fed up with the noisy Communist picket lines outside the courthouse and the cascade of telegrams and letters poured in on him by Communist sympathizers. "I will not be intimidated," he said...