What's the difference between mistrial and trial?

Mistrial


Definition:

  • (n.) A false or erroneous trial; a trial which has no result.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The trial of the former police officer who shot dead Walter Scott, an unarmed African American , in an incident that was caught on cellphone video and reignited the debate on race and policing in the US, has ended in a mistrial.
  • (2) At the end of 2015 the first of six Baltimore police officers indicted in the death in custody of Freddie Gray also ended in a mistrial, paving the way for charges being dropped in the other cases.
  • (3) An Ohio judge on Saturday declared a mistrial in the case of a white police officer charged with the murder of an unarmed black motorist, prompting activists to demand “system-wide accountability” and an immediate retrial.
  • (4) After a mistrial, Kozlowzki and his fellow executives were sent to prison for 25 years.
  • (5) More than ever, our communities need us – and we need each other – to be beacons of a better and brighter future.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Samuel DuBose: full police dashcam video of shooting A civil attorney for the DuBose family, Al Gerhardstein, said he met Deters after the mistrial was declared.
  • (6) Sadly, Hanks's sandwich-eating came to an abrupt end because, being the highest-grossing film star on the planet, his presence attracted some attention and a mistrial was called when a member of the Los Angeles prosecutor's office approached him.
  • (7) But as the trial isn’t yet under way, and mistrials assume that the trial is under way, it is more likely that you would get a request for dismissal based on outrageous government conduct.” The prosecution is attempting to press on.
  • (8) But the judge declared a mistrial on three charges of perjury after the jury failed to reach a verdict.
  • (9) Last month the trial of former Cincinnati campus police officer Ray Tensing ended in mistrial despite video evidence that prosecutors argued showed he had murdered Samuel DuBose.
  • (10) 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.
  • (11) She did not then grant a request by Tensing’s attorney to declare a mistrial.
  • (12) The family thanked him for a strong presentation,” he told the Guardian, “but they made it very, very clear that they definitely want to see the case put before a new jury and that this thing get retried.” Samuel DuBose police shooting: settlement 'won't bring Sam back' Read more DuBose’s family felt supported by the prosecutor and the community, Gerhardstein said, but felt the mistrial was a “terrible way to get any sort of resolution in this tragedy”.
  • (13) It is often the case that many mistrials are encountered when investigating an area where very little is known.
  • (14) According to the Southern Poverty Law Centre in Montgomery, Alabama, 25 cases have been re-examined or are under re-examination, which have led to 26 arrests, 21 convictions, two acquittals and a mistrial.
  • (15) If the allegations are true, the FBI’s tapping of a member of the defense team for information on the defense’s case, something unimaginable in federal court proceedings, could conceivably lead to the defense asking for a mistrial,” said Karen Greenberg of Fordham University Law School.
  • (16) During the trial another inmate stabbed and wounded Ashker's attorney, Philip Cozens, in what Cozens believes was an attempt to provoke a mistrial.
  • (17) The jury, which deliberated for four and a half hours on Wednesday, was not told about the earlier trial, Dunn’s convictions for attempted murder, which will each bring a minimum 20-year sentence, or that a mistrial was declared in February on the murder charge.
  • (18) Walter Scott shooting: single juror forces deadlock and pushes trial into fifth week Read more The jury of 11 white people and one black person was unable to reach a unanimous decision on the murder and manslaughter charges, meaning the case resulted in a mistrial.
  • (19) If a judge was discovered to be raising money for the prosecution, there’d be a mistrial and the case would be over.” The government has previously defended the independence of the royal commission.

Trial


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of trying or testing in any manner.
  • (n.) Any effort or exertion of strength for the purpose of ascertaining what can be done or effected.
  • (n.) The act of testing by experience; proof; test.
  • (n.) Examination by a test; experiment, as in chemistry, metallurgy, etc.
  • (n.) The state of being tried or tempted; exposure to suffering that tests strength, patience, faith, or the like; affliction or temptation that exercises and proves the graces or virtues of men.
  • (n.) That which tries or afflicts; that which harasses; that which tries the character or principles; that which tempts to evil; as, his child's conduct was a sore trial.
  • (n.) The formal examination of the matter in issue in a cause before a competent tribunal; the mode of determining a question of fact in a court of law; the examination, in legal form, of the facts in issue in a cause pending before a competent tribunal, for the purpose of determining such issue.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A former Berlusconi aide, Valter Lavitola, is also on trial for being the alleged intermediary in the bribe.
  • (2) We have addressed the effect of late intensification with autologous bone marrow transplantation on SCLC through a randomized clinical trial.
  • (3) Clonazepam was added to the treatment of patients with poorly controlled epilepsy in a double-blind trial and an open trial.
  • (4) Currently, photodynamic therapy is under FDA-approved clinical investigational trials in the treatment of tumors of the skin, bronchus, esophagus, bladder, head and neck, and of gynecologic and ocular tumors.
  • (5) In the clinical trials in which there was complete substitution of fat-modified ruminant foods for conventional ruminant products the fall in serum cholesterol was approximately 10%.
  • (6) We report the results of a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of acitretin (Soriatane) in 15 patients with moderate to severe psoriasis.
  • (7) A 24-h test trial employing a dry target demonstrated a robust memory for the training manifested in passive avoidance behavior.
  • (8) Statistically significant differences were found mainly in the randomized trial, where during the first and second years, respectively, adenoidectomy subjects had 47% and 37% less time with otitis media than control subjects and 28% and 35% fewer suppurative (acute) episodes than control subjects.
  • (9) Twenty volunteers were used for the measurement of pedal pressures for 15 trials during three separate sessions.
  • (10) A previous trial into the safety and feasibility of using bone marrow stem cells to treat MS, led by Neil Scolding, a clinical neuroscientist at Bristol University, was deemed a success last year.
  • (11) We are currently conducting a trial to compare the ability of DHPG administered plus an anti-CMV immune globulin preparation with acyclovir to prevent posttransplant TI-CMV disease.
  • (12) At the trial Arena admitted involvement in criminal activity, but insisted he was innocent of the murders.
  • (13) Recently reported unfavorable clinical results (i.e., a high incidence of pain) have led to the discontinuation of one trial of porous polyethylene.
  • (14) According to the experience of clinical trials the recommended ciprofloxacin dose varies between 100 and 500 mg b.i.d.
  • (15) Eighty micrograms of the topically active parasympatholytic drug ipratropium were applied intranasally four times daily in 20 adults with perennial rhinitis and severe watery rhinorrhoea in a double-blind controlled cross-over trial.
  • (16) A bouncy function has now been incorporated into a knee of the semi-automatic knee lock design in a pilot laboratory trial involving six patients.
  • (17) lengths with the subjects equally divided into these four groups: distributed trials, distributed sessions; distributed trials, massed sessions; massed trials, distributed sessions; and massed trials, massed sessions.
  • (18) A prospective randomized trial was conducted at Srinagarind and Khon Kaen hospitals.
  • (19) Of these, 41 were given a trial of sulfapyridine or dapsone, and six showed a significant response.
  • (20) The initiation of clinical trials should be a primary goal of gene therapy research programs.

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