Word: mistrials
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a tragic, white face Judge Oakes returned from his conference. "I am obliged to call this a mistrial," he said. Court attendants flocked around him sympathetically, watched him walk slowly out of the courtroom. When he got home he sent his motherless 14-year-old daughter away, climbed into bed, telephoned his friend the county medical referee to come over to his house. Then Judge Oakes shot himself through the head with a revolver...
...Their assailants were surrounded, overcome by a posse when the train reached Paint Rock, Ala. Within two weeks and two days of the arrest, three juries returned a verdict of guilty against eight of the Negroes. They were sentenced to death in the electric chair on July 10. A mistrial was ordered for the youngest. Throughout the trials, 1,000 National Guardsmen were held in readiness to suppress race disorders...
After the first trial, Painter Brush was awarded a verdict of $4,000. The second was a mistrial, and after the third Mrs. Brooks-Aten announced that she would appeal the case first to the Appellate Division of the State Supreme Court and later, if necessary, to the Court of Appeals (highest court in New York...