The jury split 8 to 2 in favor of acquittal on second-degree assault, 7 to 3 in favor of conviction on reckless endangerment and 10 to 1 in favor of conviction on misconduct in office.
If the Supreme Court overturns the conviction because of misconduct by the prosecutor, the case will go back to the state to decide whether to prosecute Flowers for a seventh time.
"The State's evidence that defendant violated those rules is not sufficient to show that defendant performed an act 'forbidden by law' as required to sustain a conviction of official misconduct," Chief Justice Thomas Kilbride wrote in the court's opinion.
The sacking was a formality after his career was effectively ended by his conviction for misconduct and perverting the course of justice at a retrial in February.
The court of appeal decided there were sufficient grounds for a full hearing into the safety of Dizaei's convictions for misconduct and perverting the course of justice.
Although some of this conduct may be attributable to winning for the sake of winning, I suspect that it is not motivated by evil, but rather that the zealous prosecutors involved are so convinced of the person's guilt that the temptation to assure a conviction may motivate incidents of misconduct.
In three other trials, convictions were overturned because of misconduct on the part of District Attorney Doug Evans that violated the Supreme Court's ruling in Batson v. Kentucky, which says that jurors may not be dismissed because of their race.
Men are more likely than women to commit scientific fraud, a new analysis of misconduct convictions reveals.
In most cases, despite a finding of misconduct, convictions were permitted to stand, and rarely was the misconduct reported or disciplined, even though some prosecutors were repeat offenders.
Mr Stevens was convicted of corruption just before the election of 2008, in which he lost his seat; the conviction was later overturned because of misconduct by the prosecutors.Mr Rangel failed to declare some assets to the taxman, and used House stationery and staff to solicit donations for a university building bearing his name, among other sins.
