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Prosecutor Arnold Markle quickly asserted that the state wanted a retrial. Mulvey turned him down, ruling: "With the massive publicity attendant upon the trial just completed, I find it impossible to believe that an unbiased jury could be selected without superhuman efforts which this court, the state and these defendants should not be called upon either to make or endure." He went on to explain that the hung jury, and the fact that Mrs. Huggins had been confined "for more than two years" and Seale "for at least that amount of time," had been important factors in his decision...
State Attorney Arnold Markle said yesterday that he will try to get a retrial for co-defendants Seale and Ericka Huggins, both charged with the kidnapping and slaying of Alex Rackley, another Panther member...
Judge Mulvey will meet today with the two defendants, their attorneys and the prosecuting attorney, and is expected to decide whether the defendants will be released on bail and to set a date for a retrial...
...legal documents protect them. West Germany's constitution prohibits the extradition of its own citizens. The 1954 accord between the Allies and Bonn prohibits the retrial in Germany of a war criminal if he has already been convicted in a French, British or U.S. court. That provision was designed to prevent lenient German judges from retrying war criminals after Allied courts had convicted them, and giving them lighter sentences. Ironically, the provision has served to protect those who were tried in absentia in Allied courts but then surfaced after 1955, when West Germany regained its sovereignty. As a result...
...attorney Herbert Travers told the federal District Court in Boston that available evidence-and the acquittal of Spock, Ferber, and Raskin-"does not warrant the retrial of Coffin and Goodman...