BOSTON � A second defamation trial brought by former Maryland assistant state attorney Marc E. Mandel against alternative newspaper company the Boston Phoenix Inc. ended in mistrial and a hung jury on December 11.

Mandel sued the Boston Phoenix for defamation and republication of defamatory material for a 2003 article about family courts that said Mandel was a “child molester” who had “assaulted” his daughter from his first marriage. Mandel v. The Boston Phoenix Inc., No. 03-10687 (D. Mass.)

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