Security National Bank v. Compania Anonime de Seguros

How courts have described this case

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• acknowledging court’s inherent authority to terminate prosecution following mistrials based on deadlocked juries
• fourth trial in a non-capital case was not cruel and unusual punishment since \reprosecution after the declaration of a mistrial is not punishment in any constitutional sense\
• fourth trial in a non-capital case was not cruel and unusual punishment since “reprosecution after the declaration of a mistrial is not punishment in any constitutional sense”
• trial court has inherent authority to terminate prosecution after mistrials based on deadlocked juries

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).