Cases - Civil
Torts -- Automobile accident -- Jury misconduct -- New trial -- Trial court abused discretion in granting
defendant's motion for new trial on ground that jurors failed to disclose during voir dire that they had been
injured in automobile accidents -- In order for juror's nondisclosure of information to warrant new trial, the
facts must be relevant and material to jury service, the facts must be concealed on voir dire examination, and
the failure to discover the concealed facts must not be due to the want of diligence of the complaining party --
Nothing in jury interview suggests that omitted information would have caused jurors to be biased or
sympathetic toward plaintiff -- Record suggests that jurors did not so much conceal their prior accidents as fail
to appreciate that disclosure was required
Reported at 33 Fla. L. Weekly D448b
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Reported at 33 Fla. L. Weekly D448b
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From the Justice Building Blog
http://justicebuilding.blogspot.com/2008/02/jon-may-speaks-about-ben-kuehne.html
We received this email from nationally known criminal defense attorney Jon May (who was a Federal Prosecutor before he joined up with the good guys.)
STATEMENT OF JON MAY IN SUPPORT OF BENEDICT P. KUEHNE
An innocent man has been charged with a crime. His name is Ben Kuehne. And I am proud to call him my friend. In the coming days you will hear only what the government wants you to know about the allegations against Ben. And you may be tempted to believe what you hear. But don't........
Southern District Federal Blog
http://sdfla.blogspot.com/
Some interesting points --
1. The Southern District of Florida U.S. Attorney's Office did not sign the indictment. It recused.......