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California Supreme Court

May 9, 2009

Justices Let Verdict Stand Despite Faulty Jury Polling

Object now or forever hold your peace. The California Supreme Court affirmed that long-standing maxim of good lawyering Thursday in an unusual case of jury polling gone wrong.

By Laura Ernde
Daily Journal Staff Writer

Object now or forever hold your peace.

The California Supreme Court affirmed that long-standing maxim of good lawyering Thursday in an unusual case of jury polling gone wrong.

In a May 2006 wrongful death trial, San Diego County Superior Court Judge John S. Einhorn forgot to ask one of the jurors a key question about who was more at fault in a fatal traffic accident, the truck driver for a door sup...

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