No but if he GRANTS a mistrial they can certainly try for an easier judge.
I didn’t think that would happen given that Judge Ellis seemed pretty antagonistic to the prosecutors and I was thinking they would request the mistrial based on the Jury instructions and Judge Ellis’ comments they were complaining about.
Robert Mueller’s prosecutors, taking one last chance to complain about the impact that critical comments made by Paul Manafort’s trial judge may have on their case, won a victory of sorts: U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III will tell the panel to ignore what he said and focus on the evidence.