Word: reindicted
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...court. In all, the Skadden team invested about a million dollars of billable hours and resources, producing a 173-page petition that convinced two federal courts Macias had been wrongly convicted. When prosecutors presented his case to a new grand jury, it found there was insufficient evidence to reindict. After almost 10 years on death row, Macias was a free...
...played about, waiting to draw the names of venire-men for the jury from a box, a duty assigned to a young child by state law. The Judge himself, John T. Raulston of Winchester, Tenn., after opening the court and calling a special sitting of the grand jury to reindict Scopes so that there might be no mistake, sat back in his chair chewing gum, waving to friends among the spectators, occasionally calling for order when growls of prejudice greeted the cross-questioning to which Darrow and Malone were putting the venire...
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