California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Sumner v. Superior Court of L. A. Cnty., No. B265774 (Cal. App. 2016):
"The fundamental idea of a mistrial is that some error has occurred which is too serious to be corrected, and therefore the trial must be terminated, so that proceedings can begin again."15 (Blumenthal v. Superior Court, supra, 137 Cal.App.4th at p. 678.) A
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trial court's decision on a motion for a mistrial is reviewed under an abuse of discretion standard. (Pope v. Babick (2014) 229 Cal.App.4th 1238, 1248.)
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