Ostane v. Hickey

How courts have described this case

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• trial judge, in declaring mistrial, acted without proof of legally sufficient reason to discharge jury when key witness was stabbed and unavailable and no consideration was given to the alternative of a recess
• critical witness murdered on courthouse steps

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