Word: mistrials
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With no hope for an end to the deadlock, the judge declared a mistrial and sent the jury home. And so, last week, in the county courthouse in Hayneville, Ala., ended the murder trial of Collie Leroy Wilkins, 21, who had been charged with murdering Detroit Housewife Viola Gregg Liuzzo on the Selma-Montgomery highway in March...
...comment. "No s.o.b. judge can tell me what to put in my paper," said a Massachusetts newspaper editor, in the course of a discussion convened to frame a voluntary code for newspaper coverage court procedure. Replied the judge: "And no s.o.b. editor is going to force me into a mistrial...
...were ready to talk in exchange for lighter sentences, the paper refused at first to publish the story, even though the city's other dailies did. The News suspected that it came from defense attorneys interested in getting it printed so that they could claim a mistrial...
Jones doggedly insisted that he was not even in Tennessee when Lee's father was killed. But as it turned out, both hunter and prey had bad legal luck. With the all-male jury reportedly ready to acquit Jones, the prosecution suddenly requested and won a mistrial on the ground that two jurors were relatives of two defense character witnesses. "It ain't fair to me," complained Jones, who may be retried in June. Vowed Lee: "This...
Cohn's acquittal may be cited by some lawyers to show why prosecutors mortally fear mistrials. After the first courtroom conflict last April, the jury was on the verge of convicting Cohn when the father of one of the jurors suddenly died. The judge excused the juror; as a result, the trial turned into a mistrial (TIME...