KATZMANN, Circuit Judge:
The decision by a district court to declare a mistrial is of great consequence.
The case at hand calls on us to review such a ruling, to determine whether it was an abuse of discretion for a trial court to decide that a single jury note indicating deadlock created a "manifest necessity" to declare a mistrial. On the record before us, we conclude that it was. We therefore hold that retrial of defendants-appellants Michael DeGennaro...
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