Word: mistrials
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Outside the courtroom, Buckey embraced his father with tears in his eyes and said, "It's all over." It was the second mistrial for Buckey, whose mother, Peggy McMartin Buckey, had been acquitted of similar charges in January after the longest trial in U.S. history. That jury had been unable to reach a decision on all the counts against Raymond. Prosecutors then made their second attempt to convict him, this time on charges of molesting three of the children, girls who are now ages 11 to 13. Buckey spent five years in prison awaiting his day in court. The bill...
...introduced into court, so much of the most provocative material concerning Noriega's services to the CIA may be beyond the reach of his attorneys. But if the government refuses to turn over files that Federal % District Judge William M. Hoeveler deems essential, that could result in a mistrial or the dismissal of some charges. Some Washington insiders doubt that the trial will result in embarrassing disclosures. "There isn't anything there," says Elliott Abrams, former Assistant Secretary of State for Inter- American Affairs. "It's a bugaboo." Other intelligence experts disagree. According to a former CIA official quoted...