1. No sh*t. Sherlock. The "mistrials" were acquitals till two jurors went home and started talking to
people who got them to change their minds. That means that the government lost most of the case, except for the judges incompetence in allowing the jurors to reach a decision and then not reading it right away but instead sending them out for four days to face peer pressure (and who knows, maybe prosecutorial pressure?) before bringing them back four days later to read the verdict and then poll the jury at which point two women had inexplicably changed their minds.
And the feds say that this gives them the right to refile their charges.
I think the judges in the case were trying to salvage the prosecutors' case, figuring some people would think a mistrial meant one hold out juror for acquittal.
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