Word: mistrials
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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CONVICTED. LYLE MENENDEZ, 28, and his brother ERIK, 25; of first-degree murder in the 1989 shotgun killings of parents Jose and Kitty; in Los Angeles. The first time, the brothers were tried in simultaneous courtroom proceedings with separate juries. Deliberations were deadlocked, and a mistrial was declared. This time, a single jury accepted the prosecution's argument that the pair executed their mother and father in order to tap into the family fortune, rejecting the defense's contention that the killings were a response to abuse...
...jury was unable to reach a verdict on four separate indictments of extortion and a mistrial was declared on those counts...
According to Womack's lawyer Lee P. Johnson, the district attorney and judge agreed that a mistrial was appropriate given the amount of time the jury was taking to decide the four extortion counts...
...nearly six-week trial turned out to be every bit as tangled and outrageous and bizarre as the defendant's coiffure. Last Friday the government announced it was withdrawing its appeal of the mistrial ruling made the day before by U.S. District Judge Lawrence McKenna. The judge had declared the mistrial because the jury informed him it was hopelessly deadlocked--after only five hours of actual deliberation. It seems that one of the jurors had a plane to catch to South Africa on Friday, with a nonrefundable ticket. King, 64, who has survived a 1985 tax-evasion case, three grand...
...mistrial was declared, one of the alternate jurors in the case told Alex Michelini of the Daily News that she didn't know whom to believe--King, who "couldn't have been telling the whole truth," or Maffia, who "had it in for Don." The alternate also revealed that she had discussed the case with two of the regular jurors, one of whom is an attorney, on a subway ride home earlier in the week--an apparent violation of court instructions not to discuss deliberations. That alone would have been grounds for a mistrial, according to lead prosecutor Paul Gardephe...