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How to use mistrial in a sentence

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The criminal charges were withdrawn in September 2002, after the original trial was declared a mistrial.
At that point, the plaintiff moved that I declare a mistrial based on a reasonable apprehension that I am biased in favour of the defendant.
The first, held this summer, ended in a mistrial because the jury deadlocked.
We will go in-depth on the latest developments on the jury deliberations, including the possibility of a mistrial.
With the high likelihood of a hung jury, which I understand would be a mistrial, I'm wondering what happens to the defendant.
In the US where there is trial by jury, the presiding judge can rule a mistrial, leading to the trial beginning anew.
The parties are also agreed that my previous rulings are void as a result of the mistrial.
He dodged a bullet with his Oct. 24 mistrial, but his troubles aren't over.
It was my intention to declare a mistrial as opposed to an adjournment for the following reasons.
Of course these remarks, if said in front of a jury, might have been grounds for a mistrial.
Because if they are stymied, if they are making no progress, if this, you know, somehow were to end in a mistrial or a hung jury, that's a victory for the defense.
The only way to call the 2012 election a mistrial on the Affordable Care Act is to ignore the 2012 election.
The first time around, there were almost two weeks of deliberation before a deadlocked jury caused a mistrial.
However, the judge was required to declare a mistrial because one juror held out for conviction.
The judge may find it necessary to declare a mistrial if it appears the accused person's right to a fair trial has been compromised.
He sent them back to the jury room, but after an hour he accepted they were deadlocked and declared a mistrial.
Judge Elizabeth Allen White called a mistrial last month following days of a hung jury.
The defense could also make a motion for a mistrial.
But it is only a small part of a story tangled in a series of criminal charges – which were variously dismissed, acquitted, or ruled mistrial – of violence, prison time, escape and political asylum in Cuba.
See articleA jury acquitted John Edwards, a former Democratic presidential candidate, on one charge of receiving illegal campaign donations, but a mistrial was declared on five other counts.
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I want you to withdraw a juror in this case and consent to a mistrial.
During the journey from his home mistrial had contemplated that text.
This effort on her part mistrial hindered to the best of his ability.
Mistrial had served his novitiate where the pochard is rare.
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