Eyewitness: Watada Judge Panicked and Bailed

This, along with his anxious demeanor suggest the judge simply declared a mistrial to extricate himself from a sticky position, apparently wanting above all costs to avoid putting the legality of the Iraq war on trial in his courtroom. For more details and the precedent for double jeopardy applying here, see http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020807A.shtml

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