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Litigation

Apr. 19, 2016

Mistrial declared in case of planned murder of federal judge

Jury hangs after two days of deliberations in Orange County.

By Meghann M. Cuniff
Daily Journal Staff Writer

Federal prosecutors will retry a man accused of a murder-for-hire plot to kill U.S. District Judge Andrew F. Guilford with a woodchipper after a jury announced its inability to reach a verdict on a count of solicitation to commit a crime of violence.

U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney declared a mistrial Thursday in the case of John Arthur Walthall after roughly two days of deliberation ...

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