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...highly anticipated court-martial of Army Lieutenant Ehren Watada for refusing to deploy to Iraq ended in a mistrial on Wednesday, a surprising development that left military prosecutors clearly frustrated, observers stunned and defense attorneys claiming that the military had blown its only chance at a conviction...
...hope is that at this point the Army will realize that this case is a hopeless mess," said Eric Seitz, Watada's attorney, speaking at a press conference shortly after the mistrial was declared...
...campaign of anti-Semitic and antiblack intimidation and violence; in a prison near Jackson, Miss., where he was serving a life sentence for the 1966 bombing of the home of civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer. Each of Bowers' first four trials for the Dahmer murder ended in a mistrial. He was finally convicted in 1998, but Ellie Dahmer, the victim's widow, was unappeased. "He lived a lot longer than Vernon Dahmer did," she said...
...lawsuit resulted in a mistrial after the judge ruled that the L.A.P.D. had deliberately concealed evidence. The case is due back in court early next year...
...would suffer grave embarrassment,” Kamin wrote.In August 1954, the Senate voted contempt citations against both men, and in December a federal grand jury indicted them.In April 1955, Judge Bailey Aldrich ’28 ordered a trial. Applause for McCarthy led the judge to declare a mistrial for Kamin in October.One month later, Aldrich acquitted Kamin of two counts of his indictment, and in January 1956, he acquitted him on all six counts.In June 1956, the U.S. government dropped charges against Furry, and the Red Scare fizzled out at Harvard.‘TREMOR OF APPREHENSION?...