Two of his colleagues still face an uncertain future following a retrial which is due to deliver its verdict at the end of this month.
A high court judge has refused to publish a 2014 judgment on the death of Ellie Butler on the grounds that her father, who has been jailed for life for her murder, might in the future face a retrial.
Seven media organisations including the Guardian made submissions to the court of appeal after a family court judge refused the press permission to publish the judgment on the death, on the grounds that Butler might in the future face a retrial.
Porter's testifying in Goodson and White's cases — regardless of their outcome — would also cast him in a negative light for future potential jurors heading into his own retrial in state court, his attorneys argued.
In addition, Bunting argued, even if Butler crossed the high threshold at the court of appeal, a potential retrial would be in "the distance future" and a jury could therefore not be prejudiced.
The effect of this sort of reiteration, which is to be expected of the Journal-American but not of the Herald Tribune, may well be, as Congressman Walter suggested, to intimidate any judge who in the future presides over a similar trial, or a retrial of the Hiss case.
The locally optimal sets of clusters for RCKmeans found by multiple retrials become different upon trials, so deterministic initialization methods need to be considered as a future work.
May 11 2006 The retrial begins.
