Word: mistrials
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Once confident of a hung jury, Cohn paced nervously outside Manhattan's Foley Square Federal Court, fretting that "all bets are off." Then, in a stunning and unpredictable turn of the wheel, one juror's father suddenly died. After excusing her, Judge Archie O. Dawson declared a mistrial. Cohn, for the time being at least, was home free...
...have considered a death in the family an insufficient excuse. Mrs. Mabrey had every right to leave, although other jurors might have been more aware of the consequences. Once she was gone, Cohn's lawyers refused to waive his right to a twelve-man jury-thus forcing a mistrial. In a second trial, the defendant usually, though not always, has an advantage, since the prosecution strategy is no longer a secret, and there is time to build a new rebuttal to damaging testimony...
...Defense Attorney Melvin Belli was on his feet, red-faced and shouting. He demanded a mistrial, cried that Dean's testimony was "incompetent, irrelevant and immaterial...
...Farce of Justice? The two-month trial grew out of an earlier legal battle in Nashville. There, in 1962, Hoffa went to trial on conspiracy charges. The case ended in a mistrial when the jury failed to agree on a verdict. After that, Justice Department investigators found evidence that Hoffa and a few colleagues had tried corruptly to influence two members of the hung jury. In the case decided last week, Hoffa and a co-defendant were convicted of trying to win over a woman juror by promising to get a promotion for her husband, a member of the Tennessee...
...after the jury had been out for a while, Beckwith quit hamming around, sat in tense silence until-22 hours after they had been handed the case for a verdict-the jurors returned to say that they could not agree. Circuit Judge Leon Hendrick declared a mistrial, and Beckwith, with nary a smirk nor a smile, got up and went back to his cell...