Mistrial is result in e-mail-threat case.

Reports that a mistrial was declared in the November 1997 case of a former student at the University of California at Irvine accused of sending about 60 e-mail messages threatening to kill Asian-American students and staff members. First federal prosecution of an alleged hate crime on the Internet; Inability of jurors to reach a unanimous verdict on Richard Machado; His testimony that the message was a joke.