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Originally Posted by mutigers
have about 3 trials a month scheduled starting in September until the end of the year. Really cannot imagine trying to do a jury trial right now. Kind of doubt the jury will be particularly sympathetic to plaintiffs and if we truly have to wear masks (as it stands that is the directive) it will be incredibly awkward...on the other hand if the jury pool is forced to be younger that may be alright with me
I just did a covid social distance trial. It was complete and utter bullshit. If client wasn't a complete crook, probably liar, and a generally unlikeable person, I would appeal.
Half the jury was in the box, half in the audience. I had to have my back towards half the jury for the entire trial. I did my best to talk extremely loud and open my body up, like be standing at a pivot so they could all see me, but it was hard.
Jurors in audience were like 30 yards from witness testifying and didn't care about the action at all.
Entire ****ing thing was a trainwreck. Defense counsel has been practicing over 30 years and done hundreds, if not thousands, of trials. He agreed with me that the entire thing was awful.
I ended up getting zero'd on causation. Case was not worth much of anything but I just hate losing to snakefarm.
MVA where CL suffered soft tissue injury. Does physical/manual labor as a job. About 2 years post accident, decides to have surgery bc the injury never quite heals right. CL's depo was really bad and was caught contradicting himself numerous times re: did he work or not post accident. I only took to trial bc treating physician did the expert depo for free and Snakefarm refused
to offer higher than 5k. My total costs into case were under 3k but still sucks to lose.
If you got any questions, shoot me a PM.
edit: Should add I'm not blaming the loss on covid. It was probably a loser from the start. But Covid distancing rules and what not certainly didn't help
Last edited by Gremant; 06-30-2020 at 06:48 PM.