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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Grassl Bradley finds the court of appeals improperly reversed the circuit court's denial of defendant's motion to dismiss his felony trafficking of a child case after the circuit court declared a mistrial due to the defense presenting third-party perpetrator evidence without notifying the state beforehand or getting a ruling on admissibility from the circuit court. Contrary to defendant's arguments, a retrial of his case would not violate his constitutional protection against double jeopardy, as all of the factors in the relevant precedent are met to support the circuit court's use of solid discretion to declare a mistrial based on "manifest necessity." The circuit court properly did this in part because the state never knew about the surprise testimony implicating a third party in the underlying sex trafficking crime and it never made a ruling on that evidence, and in part because the circuit court reasonably concluded a curative jury instruction could not "unring the bell," even though the evidence was later deemed admissible. Reversed.