Posted by David Bernstein:
More on the Case with the attorney's girlfriend on the jury:
[1]Wally Olson reports:
Auto Connection has some new material on the astounding $31 million
verdict against Ford from Zavala County, Texas, last discussed in
this space Mar. 7. A few snippets:
In the testimony that followed [a Feb. 22 mistrial motion by Ford],
it was revealed that not only had [juror Diana] Palacios failed to
acknowledge her romantic entanglement [with plaintiff's attorney
Jesse Gamez] during jury selection, but had previously been a
client of Gamez in other litigation, had been an aunt by marriage
of one of the plaintiffs and indeed had solicited the plaintiffs to
sue Ford and Guerrero and hire Gamez as their lawyer....
Incredibly, Ford's motions were denied, but Juror Palacios was
removed.
The next day's Express-News carried a story about the motions and
denials.
But a mysterious man went around to all the distribution points in
Crystal City, buying up all the papers before anyone could read
them. The San Antonio newspaper management 130 miles away quickly
got wind of this, replenished the newspapers and ran an editorial
the following day denouncing the act as an attempt to keep Crystal
Citians from learning of their local conflicts of interest. The
miscreant was never identified.
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