Tiffany Donner v. Progressive Michigan Insurance Company

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• noting that govern- ment opposed motion for mistrial and instead sought limiting instruction
• approving, on a motion to dismiss indictment after mistrial, a district court’s procedure of first conducting an informal hearing and accepting argument from both parties, and then considering own observations at trial
• prosecutor s inadvertent mistake in opening, although it necessitated mistrial, did not bar retrial under Kennedy exception where there was no intent to precipitate mistrial, reprosecute defendant
• “[A] defendant who fails to object to a mistrial gives his or her implied consent to it.”
• “[T]he evidentiary hearing serves as a backstop ... if ... a reasonable judge would not be[] satisfied with the prosecutor’s explanation.”
• \[A] defendant who fails to object to a mistrial gives his or her implied consent to it.\

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