Make-a-List Monday: MWAB cases with mistrials

For obvious reasons, it can be very difficult to prove murder without a body, never mind prove a specific person committed that murder. As my corpus delicti lists indicate, however, most of the time such prosecutions are successful — as of this writing I’ve got over 350 convictions versus a little over 100 acquittals. I thought I’d make a list of MWAB cases on Charley where they had to do multiple trials of the defendant because of a mistrial (usually because the jury failed to reach a verdict).

This is actually two lists. The first is cases where the defendant was ultimately convicted or pleaded guilty. The second is cases where the defendant was either ultimately acquitted, or the prosecution did not bring them to trial again after the mistrial. I don’t count cases that are still pending.

List #1:

1. Frank Lee Black Jr.
2. Jana Carpenter-Koklich
3. Marilyn E. Brinson
4. Crystal Gayle Dittmeyer
5. Jeanette Gomez Espeleta
6. Joaquin Coehlo Esteves
7. Mario Rodriguez Hernandez
8. Faith Nanette Lippe
9. Isabel Rodriguez
10. Robert James Wykel
11. Jeanette Louise Zapata

List #2:

1. Martin Alan Gentry
2. Michael Eugene Golub
3. Michelle Kelly Pulsifer
4. Shelton John Sanders
5. Shamari Taylor