NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) -- The trial of two people accused of trying to extort John Travolta following the afterlife of his son in the Bahamas has ended in a mistrial afterwards a lawmaker suggested the still-deliberating board had acquitted one of the defendants.

Senior Justice Anita Allen said she was cautiously ordering a new trial "in the interest of justice" because the politician's statement, in a accent advertisement on television and radio, gave the actualization of an improper leak from the board room.

"The dilemma that we face is great," Allen told the court. "I am erring on the side of caution. Justice charge be transparent."

Ambulance driver Tarino Lightbourne and his attorney, politician Pleasant Bridgewater, were accused of threatening to release clandestine advice about the January afterlife of Travolta's 16-year-old son Jett at the family vacation home in Grand Bahama.

Lightbourne, who was amid the medics who advised Jett, allegedly approved $25 million from the amateur with the assistance of Bridgewater, who accommodated her seat in the Bahamas Senate afterwards she was charged in the case.

Jurors were still apperception when lawmaker Picewell Forbes told an audience at a Progressive Liberal Party convention that Bridgewater was "a free woman." He did not go into details.

Immediately afterward, Alex Storr, the party's deputy chairman-elect, said Forbes had misspoken. He said the advice was incorrect and no adjudication had been issued. He apologized on account of the party.

But the adjudicator said that Forbes' animadversion gave her no choice but to abolish the jurors. She did not set a new trial date.!

The jury, which deliberated about nine hours, had spent a month listening to testimony including from Travolta, who flew to the Bahamas to take the stand. Michael Ossi, one of the actor's attorneys, said his client would abet in any way possible and affirm afresh if necessary.

"We are committed to seeing this through, and we are committed to seeing justice served," Ossi said. "And whatever the prosecution asks us to do is exactly what we will do."

Howard Butler, a Florida-based lawyer for Travolta, referred further questions to a publicist who did not anon acknowledge to a request for comment.

In closing statements, attorneys for the defendants, who denied the allegations, told the nine-member board that their clients were set up by attorneys for Travolta. They additionally said authorities misinterpreted their actions.

The alleged artifice centered on a certificate that would accept released emergency responders from accountability if the family refused an ambulance ride to the hospital for Jett, who suffered a deadly access at a family vacation home on Grand Bahama island on Jan. 2.

Travolta said he signed the waiver because he initially wanted his autistic son flown anon to Florida for treatment. But he later changed his mind, and the certificate did not appear into play.

The amateur testified that Lightbourne threatened to sell stories to the media suggesting that he was at accountability in his son's death.

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