Word: mistrials
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Defense lawyer Herbert J. Miller Jr. told Jackson he would file motions within 30 days asking that a mistrial be declared...
...theory behind it." The sensation of what was primarily a dozy trial came just after the jury began deliberating. One juror apparently suffered an attack of panic; she locked herself in a bathroom chanting, "The Lord is my shepherd." Judge Collins rejected appeals by several defendants to declare a mistrial. He seated an alternate juror, who concurred in the verdict of acquittal...
...getting to and from court. Most continue to draw salaries from their pretrial employers. Four jurors have been excused for illness or injury since the trial began. The original juror panel of 18 is now down to 14, including two alternates. If the number falls below twelve, a mistrial is likely. Carr charges Monsanto with scheming to force one through a strategy of "delay, delay and more delay...
Critics say Monsanto appears determined to make it prohibitively expensive and time consuming for plaintiffs, both present and future, to sue. It has moved for mistrial 31 times so far, and sought dismissal of the case for "impermissible forum shopping" in moving it from Missouri to Illinois...
...accusations, and vindictive, vicious mothers who coach and work on their children." One of the stories he told the conventioners was about a girl, 16, who went to a school official and said her father had molested her. A criminal proceeding costing the father $10,000 ended in a mistrial. When the father learned that the girl had kept a diary, he got legal access to it and found she had written about her intention to accuse him falsely. An allegation of sexual abuse, said Hirschfeld, "is the nuclear weapon of domestic relations. When all else fails, drop the bomb...