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"Robert Green" wrote:

The only real question is how many times they're going to retry Dunn for
murder one. I've never seen the prosecution go more than three times on any
case, but I have seen them go for a third retrial a number of times, often
securing a conviction on the third go-round. Each retrial, especially if
the jurors detail why they were hung, gives the prosecution lots of pointers
about how they can perfect their case to secure a conviction. Although OJ's
eventual loss at trial was civil and not criminal, it's clear by the time
the civil trial occurred that the plaintiffs had learned a lot about how to
present the case against him from what the criminal jurors had said.
Or that the attorneys were actually competent. OJ was lost when the
idiots actually allowed him to try on glove. They got exactly what they
deserved.



A courtroom trial that has been terminated prior to its normal conclusion. A
mistrial has no legal effect and is considered an invalid or nugatory trial.
It differs from a "new trial," which recognizes that a trial was completed
but was set aside so that the issues could be tried again.
There are some rare times where mistrial can attach jeopardy, but
usually requires some rather nasty prosecutorial idiocy.



Nugatory, for the record, doesn't mean caramel covered or related to Ted
Nugent:


And here I always thought that was CB for "no".


Usually, if a jury is deadlocked by just one or two jurors, a retrial is
almost certain to follow, and perhaps more than one. It's only in cases
where there are a considerable number of jurors voting to acquit that
prosecutors shy away from retrials. Murder one cases are probably an
exception to that rule, at least for a second a trial. The state of
Florida will almost certainly retry Dunn because he may be successful in
overturning the first convictions on attempted murder and they clearly don't
want him walking away without any consequences.
Lost interest before the jury started talking. What was the vote if
known.


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