Word: mistrials
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sacramento against a proposed gun-control law being debated in the Legislature (he was later given three years probation); on Feb. 25, 1967, for conspiracy to commit murder (charges were later dropped); once, in 1968. on conspiracy charges connected with the 1968 Chicago demonstrations (the case was declared a mistrial but Scale was given four years for contempt of court): and finally, on August 19, for murder, kidnapping, unlawful flight to avoid prosecution...
BOBBY SEALE, 33, a founder and chairman of the Black Panther party and one of the original defendants in the Chicago conspiracy trial until separated for disrupting the courtroom. Judge Julius Hoffman declared a mistrial in Scale's case and sentenced him to four years for contempt. He was recently extradited from California to Connecticut, where he faces charges for the kidnaping and murder of another Panther. The most radical of the three, he seeks an interracial revolution that would create a Marxist-styled socialistic form of government in the U.S. He is convinced that blacks can never achieve...
...announcement of the verdict came as a surprise to newsmen and observers who gathered in the Chicago courtroom yesterday to hear a defense motion declaring the jury deadlocked and asking for a "mistrial" ruling...
...jury remained deadlocked after its 40th hour of deliberation, defense attorneys for the "Chicago 7" yesterday filed a motion to end the deliberation and call the five-month procedure a mistrial...
...despite a plea for immediate action, the defense does not expect Judge Julius J. Hoffman to acquiesce easily to the mistrial motion...