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A mistrial is a legal trial which ends without a verdict, for example because the jury cannot agree on one. [us] The judge said he would declare a mistrial if the jury did not reach its verdict today.
Emphasis upon the trial judge's discretion has an impact upon the cases in which it is the judge's error, in granting sua sponte a mistrial or granting the prosecutor's motion. The cases are in doctrinal disarray.