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...their own for what they considered errors committed in Judge Medina's courtroom. As Attorney Richard Gladstein saw it, certain of the judge's remarks did not fit the Court's own definition of fairness, were prejudicial to the case. Gladstein wanted him to declare a mistrial. "I won't do it," said the judge. "If you expect me to sit here like a bump on a log you're making a big mistake...
Beal and 15 other strikers were indicted for first-degree murder. Their trials became famed in the history of U.S. radicalism. The first, at which the prosecution wheeled in a life-size plaster effigy of Chief Aderholt, was declared a mistrial because a juror went insane. At the close of the second, Beal and six others were convicted of second-degree murder. All jumped bail and fled to Russia...
Charles Spencer Chaplin, laid up in his Hollywood home with cuts in his left ankle after kicking in a glass door because he had lost his keys, heard that the paternity suit brought against him by Joan Berry had ended in a mistrial: the jury had deadlocked at 7-to-5 for acquittal (nine votes needed for a verdict). It will be summer before the court can schedule a new trial...
Since the trial's start, Judge Eicher had patiently refused some 500 motions for a mistrial or a directed verdict. The testimony had already run to 3,000,000 words; the Government had spent $65,000, introduced but 39 of a contemplated 200 witnesses. One defendant had died. Seven lawyers had been fined a total of $1,220 for contempt...
Courts. In White Plains, N.Y., a divorce court judge declared a mistrial after learning that the foreman of the jury had dated the woman defendant the night before. In Queens, L.I., a woman member of a jury that had just convicted a man & wife of petty larceny gave the couple $5 as a present. In Southport, N.C., among the names drawn for possible jury duty in the murder trial of Dorsey Cox was one pronounced ineligible: Dorsey...