Word: mistrials
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jumped ponderous Defense Attorney Lloyd Stryker, waving his arms at the witness. "Wait!" boomed he. "I ask for a mistrial...
...firm, dry voice a flat and lawyerlike end to one of the most sensational cases in New York jurisprudence. Because Defendant Hines was charged only with conspiracy to "contrive a lottery," said he, the question about the poultry racket was improper and prejudicial, the request for a mistrial was granted...
...whispered colloquy with a court clerk he announced. "Juror No. 7 is absent under rather peculiar circumstances." Juror No. 7, a Miss Vivian Morrison, 52, was being convicted in another Manhattan court of using a slug instead of a nickel in a subway turnstile. Judge Nott declared a mistrial. Approximate cost to the State of the subway slug...
...article captioned The True Story of Weirton and illustrated with smiling Weirton workers. Claiming that Trial Examiner Edward Grandison Smith was "obviously prejudiced in favor of the C.I.O.," Editor Barclay called the NLRB "our Ogpu," found its trial methods "farcical," concluded: "This case should be declared a mistrial and dropped...
...Detective Krone approached Mr. Stampleman, arranged for $5,000 to persuade Miss Conboy not to sue Mr. Stampleman for doping and assaulting her. "I'd have gladly paid $10,000," snapped Razorman Stampleman. "That affidavit of hers was just plain murder." The extortion case suddenly collapsed as a mistrial when the prosecution mentioned to the jury a previous indictment of Krone & Ross for similarly extorting $12,900 from Alfred Emanuel Smith Jr. after he had spent a night in a Manhattan hotel with a blonde (TIME...