Gorosh's motion for a mistrial is based on prosecutor John Skrzynski's objections during Kevorkian's closing arguments.
The first obstruction trial ended in a mistrial in October 2003, but the second one was a victory for prosecutors.
Previously, a jury on the case wound up not coming to a conclusive decision, resulting in a mistrial.
The verdict came hours after Kevorkian's lawyer, David Gorosh, indicated that he would file a motion for a mistrial.
In short, he refused to declare a mistrial, but at the same time fired a canon through the prosecutions case.
Then Ms Jordan told the judge about the letter and the phone call prompting him finally to declare a mistrial.
The first attempt at convicting them on multiple counts of grand larceny and securities fraud ended in a mistrial last year.
Defense attorneys asked for a mistrial, or for Brinkema to sanction the government by taking the death penalty off the table.
Defense attorneys had asked for a mistrial, or for Brinkema to sanction the government by taking the death penalty off the table.
This is the second attempt at trying Mr. Clemens on the perjury charges, after a mistrial ended the first effort last year.
His first trial, last summer, came to a halt after a few days when prosecutorial errors forced the judge to declare a mistrial.
The jury, which had no black members, deadlocked on one charge of excessive force against Powell, and a mistrial was declared on that charge.
Authorities originally charged Nicholas Morris, a friend of Mr. Hemphill's, with the death, but the case ended with the judge declaring a mistrial in 2008.
In January 2012, there had been another mistrial declared when six other defendants (3 were acquitted and 3 no verdict) walked free from similar charges.
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The adjournment followed Judge Sherry Stephens' dismissal of a defense motion for a mistrial and ended a session in which the defense called no witnesses on Arias' behalf.
"That would be ripe grounds for a mistrial, for throwing out a conviction or an acquittal, and we'd have to go through the process all over again, " he said.
Around the corner in the federal building on Las Vegas Boulevard in 1986, Spilotro, with Goodman by his side, and Blitzstein were tried together until it was declared a mistrial because of jury tampering.
Worse, Tobias says, the mistrial opens the door to the admission of new accusations from the editors of The New England Journal of Medicine, who says that data were deleted from the manuscript describing the largest-ever study of Vioxx, published in 2000.
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