Mistrial Declared in Blaze Bernstein Case, Delaying Jury Selection - MyNewsLA.com
A mistrial was declared Thursday in the trial of the man charged with killing a former high school classmate in what prosecutors have alleged was a hate crime because the victim was gay when the defendant had an outburst during jury selection. Attorneys will return to court Tuesday to discuss...mynewsla.com
Jury selection and pretrial motions have been grinding on for weeks...but it appears jury selection could begin again next week, setting back testimony only about a couple of weeks.
Woodward had some sort of an outburst in court that prompted his attorney to motion for a mistrial, which was granted by Orange County Superior Court Judge Kimberly Menninger.
This is unreal. I don’t know what has taken so long.