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Mistrial

A trial that has been declared invalid because of an error in procedure, or because of hung jury.

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noun

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A trial that has been declared invalid because of an error in procedure, or because of hung jury.

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referralnoun	The act or process of transferring someone or something to another, of sending by reference, or referring.
referencenoun	The act of referring: a submitting for information or decision.
technicalitynoun	A minor detail, rule, law, etc., seemingly insignificant to a non-specialist but which has significant consequences in larger matters.
nullnoun	A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
voidnoun	Containing nothing; empty; not occupied or filled.
miscarriage of justicenoun	(law) An error at a trial which led to an unjust outcome, such as the conviction of a person for a crime they did not commit.
misconvictionnoun	The erroneous conviction of a person who is not guilty of the crime of which they are convicted.
errornoun	(countable) A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately.
miscarriagenoun	(medicine) The spontaneous natural termination of a pregnancy, especially before it is viable; the fatal expulsion of a foetus from the womb before term.
misjudgmentnoun	An act of misjudging; a mistake in judgment.
misjoindernoun	(law) An incorrect union of parties or of causes of action in a procedure in court.
misdirectionnoun	An act of misleading, of convincing someone to concentrate in an incorrect direction.
mispleadingnoun	(law) An error in pleading.
misrulingverb	A bad or wrong ruling.
mistestverb	(transitive) To incorrectly test.
miscensureverb	(obsolete) To misjudge.
misjudgementnoun	Alternative form of misjudgment. [An act of misjudging; a mistake in judgment.]
misresultnoun	An erroneous or unwanted result.
misprisionnoun	(law, chiefly historical) (uncountable) Criminal neglect or wrongful execution of duty, especially by a public official; (countable) a specific instance of this.
misyieldverb	To yield incorrectly, wrongly, badly, or amiss.