nydailynews.com - 10/22/2009
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The lengthy trial of two people accused of trying to extort $25 million from John Travolta ended in mistrial Wednesday after a Bahamian legislator mysteriously announced at a political convention that one of them had been acquitted.
tmz.com - 10/22/2009
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Filed under: Celebrity Justice , John Travolta The
judge in the John Travolta extortion case has declared...
a mistrial, reportedly because of jury misconduct.Justice Anita Allen released the jury and declared a mistrial after learning that a member of ...
Mistrial in Travolta Extortion Case
tmz.com - 10/22/2009
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tmz.com —
Filed under: John Travolta The Bahamian buffoon who
blew the whole John Travolta extortion trial is about...
to have his own day in court ... because the judge in the case wants him to explain himself in person.Lawmaker Picewell Forbes has been summoned ...
Travolta Mistrial Moron -- Explain Yourself!!!
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... 's Bahamanian legal battle against men he says tried to extort $25 million from him after son Jett's death ended in mistrial. The reason for the mistrial was as tabloid as the trial itself: the judge thought the jury pool was leaking information. They figured it out when a member of Bahamas' Parliament said he had inside knowledge that defedant Pleasant Bridgewater—a Bahamanian politician with a farcically adorable name—would be acquitted. [NYDN] ...
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news.yahoo.com 10/22/2009 — AP - The trial of two people accused of trying to extort John Travolta following the death of his son in the Bahamas has ended in a mistrial after a lawmaker suggested the still-deliberating jury had acquitted one of the defendants.