Word: mistrials
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...syndrome. His client, Daimion Osby, 18, of Fort Worth, Texas, was accosted last year by two men who in the past had threatened him over a gambling debt. Osby pulled out a .38- cal. pistol and shot the unarmed men to death. The case ended last month in a mistrial. Though 11 of the 12 jurors voted for conviction, the foreman opted for acquittal. He agreed with the argument that Osby shot Willie Brooks, 28, and Marcus Brooks, 19, in part because the environment in which all three men lived -- one of Fort Worth's most dangerous neighborhoods -- heightened Osby...
...African-American critics say the urban-survival defense harks back to a time when blacks were seen as an indistinguishable whole: volatile, angry and presumed guilty. "((The Osby mistrial)) says 'these folks' can't help shooting each other," says the Rev. Ralph Waldo Emerson, a Fort Worth minister. "And it says to already nervous law-enforcement officials that they'd better be ready to draw when they stop someone in our community...
...most extreme outcome, the defense in the World Trade Center case could secure a mistrial on the basis that Salem's tapes contain potentially helpful evidence and should have been handed over months ago instead of last week, after excerpts and summaries appeared in the press. Prosecutors have taken weeks to establish how heinous the bombing was; last week the case reached its 58th witness without any testimony directly linking the defendants to the bomb. This strategy could be blunted if the jury comes to believe that the U.S. government had the opportunity to forestall the bombing. While that would...
...easy to decide whose rights should come first in this situation, but because CNN's broadcast would almost certainly be the cause for a mistrial, Noriega's rights have to come first...
...broadcast would directly violate Noriega's rights. Any release of confidential client-lawyer information would be automatic cause for a mistrial. This makes CNN's wish to air the tapes more than just a desire to inform the public of governmental wrongdoing...