Word: mistrials
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...civil trial of a former academic journal editor who claimed Harvard unfairly fired her because of a mental disability ended in a mistrial on Dec. 3, University Attorney Allan A. Ryan Jr. said yesterday...
...first court battle ended in a mistrial. On retrial, the jury embraced New Thinking by finding American Tobacco liable for Horton's death--a conceptual breakthrough. But Old Thinking lingered: the jury figured, at the same time, that Horton had obviously brought cancer on himself and awarded zero dollars in damages...
...being called as a witness in the Hubbell case. For Starr, the plea bargain allows him to leave the public stage with a certain level of vindication after having repeatedly pursued Hubbell on Clinton-related matters. It also sweetens somewhat the bitter taste of recent defeats -- the acquittal and mistrial of Susan McDougal and the mistrial of Juliet Hiatt Steele. Of course, it is unlikely to change the verdict of Starr's critics, who believe he needlessly helped drag the country through months of impeachment politics. Nor is it likely to help revive the statute that gave...
...MISTRIAL DECLARED. In Ken Starr's case against JULIE HIATT STEELE, 52, ex-friend of alleged Clinton gropee Kathleen Willey; after a jury deadlocked; in Alexandria, Va. Steele, who contradicted Willey, was accused of testifying falsely...
...Whitewater partner Susan McDougal won an important victory on Monday at the expense of Independent Counsel Ken Starr and his prosecutors. A Little Rock, Ark., federal jury acquitted McDougal of obstruction of justice charges stemming from the Whitewater investigation, and the judge in the case declared a mistrial on two contempt charges after the jury deadlocked on those counts. The not guilty verdict on the obstruction charge is significant, says TIME Washington correspondent Viveca Novak, who has been following the trial: ?That?s the charge on which the jury was allowed to consider her state of mind, and apparently...