0 a trial that cannot be completed or whose result has no legal value, usually because a legal mistake has been made:
1 a trial that is ended by a judge because no decision can be reached or because mistakes in law have been made that make a fair trial impossible:
A failure to approach the central position or stimulus was treated as a mistrial.
Of the eleven, two had not been brought to trial, six were acquitted, and the remainder's case was deemed a mistrial.
Coughlan (2000) responds that non-strategic voting is expected when factoring in mistrials and juror communication.
Four trials were always presented but infrequently one of the trials was excluded from the analysis (4 mistrials in 128 trials) because of infant movement during trial onset.
That belief ignores the expense and the injustice of a mistrial in which there has been a wrongful conviction.
There are times when there has obviously been a mistrial and then the case has to be stopped and started again.
The trade-in makes no sense today when some of us feel some relief that those recently acquitted on grounds of mistrial and false evidence are alive and not dead.
I wonder whether the result of that will have any effect either in terms of a mistrial or miscarriage of justice with regard to the jury's final verdict.
