Word: mistrial
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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County, Wyo., Out of the criminal suit in the District of Columbia Supreme Court, to see if Albert Bacon Fall, onetime (1921-23) Cabinet man, and Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair, were criminals or not, came more suspicion, much confusion, a mistrial...
...said Judge Fred M. Raymond of the U. S. District Court at Detroit, in announcing last week that the $1,000,000 suit of Aaron Sapiro, farm organizer, against Henry Ford, publisher of the allegedly libelous Dearborn Independent, had come to a mistrial.* It was a bad end. Detectives had snooped. Insults had climbed upon the backs of innuendoes. Some of the principals were sick and injured. Everyone was vexed...
...publication of this interview prompted Federal Judge Raymond to grant the motion of the Ford attorneys for a mistrial. He dismissed the charges against Mrs. Hoffman and started contempt proceedings against the Detroit Times. Thus, it was decided that the Hearst type of journalism is a greater menace to justice than the indiscreet babbling of a woman juror...
...festival of hard feeling which marked the end of the trial, Aaron Sapiro and his lawyer, William H. Gallagher, had leading roles. They insinuated that the Ford attorneys had forced a mistrial to prevent Henry Ford from taking the witness stand. Incidentally, Mr. Sapiro was no doubt annoyed to have spent a round sum of money-only to find far distant the $1,000,000 which he hopes to get from Mr. Ford because of certain anti-Jewish articles published in the Dearborn Independent (TIME, March 21, 28). It did not seem likely that a new trial could be arranged...
...Mistrial = failure of a trial to reach its legal end because of an error in the proceedings...