United States v. Felipe Rivera, United States of America v. Homer Willis Kelly, United States of America v. Ludvig Danielson

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a trial court “must exercise prudence and care, giving due consideration to reasonably available alternatives to the drastic measure of a mistrial”
• noting that “[w]here a District Court sua sponte declares a mistrial in haste, without carefully considering alternatives available to it, it cannot be said to be acting under a manifest necessity”
• emphasizing importance of “considering] ... the constitutional implications attendant to the declaration of a mistrial”
• reviewing whether the trial court failed to consider reasonable alternatives to a mistrial even where the government opposed the mistrial
• “Critically, a mistrial must not be declared without prudent consideration of reasonable alternatives.”
• “Critically, a mistrial must not be declared without prudent consideration of reasonable alternatives.”

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