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What is a ‘mistrial’?

HOUSTON – You may have heard this phrase during your favorite courtroom drama, “We motion for a mistrial.”

A mistrial can happen in a number of ways.

Houston Attorney and ‘The Bench’ expert Letitia Quinones-Hollins explains what a mistrial is during this Anatomy of a Trial video.

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