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A KAFKA ENDING TO OUR TRIAL

A KAFKA ENDING TO OUR TRIAL

After two weeks the  jury trial I was involved in was ended by the judge declaring a mistrial. With over a hundred motions before trial and multiple motions during trial it finally just was stopped as a mercy killing. The judge decided that he should not have allowed evidence about the driver’s past driving and criminal history and  that as a result he felt he had to grant a mistrial. The entire experience reminded me of a Kafka novel  and and the…

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SOME INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT JUSTICES OF THE U.S. SUPREME COURT

SOME INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT JUSTICES OF THE U.S. SUPREME COURT

The book, Secret lives of the Supreme Court by Robert Schnakenberg has some interesting facts about the people who have been appointed to the U.S. Supreme court. As Robert Ingersoll once said: “We must remember that we have to make judges out of men, and that by being made judges their prejudices are not diminished and their intelligence is not increased.” Here are some examples of that fact from the book. Justice James Clark McReynolds was the Archie Bunker of…

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A verdict for justice

A verdict for justice

After 5 weeks of trial and 4 days of deliberations the jury came in with a verdict for our clients of $40,100,000. The multi-million dollar verdict was not only fair but reasonable in this very important medical device malfunction case. The jury did a careful job of studying all the evidence and arriving at a just verdict.