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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Foxy Brown on February 03, 2008, 05:25:36 AM

Title: U.S. jurors' name-calling of Japanese-Canadian lawyer prompts new trial
Post by: Foxy Brown on February 03, 2008, 05:25:36 AM

A judge has ordered a new trial in a medical malpractice case after complaints several jurors referred to a lawyer of Japanese-Canadian descent as "Mr. Kamikaze" during deliberations.

Spokane County Superior Court Judge Robert Austin said the racial comments call into question whether juror misconduct was at play in a verdict that went against lawyer Mark Kamitomo's client, clearing a doctor of negligence in a cancer diagnosis. (http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5hRaOJuQYBfGS3BLYRxvKgb6wDjkw)

Title: Re: U.S. jurors' name-calling of Japanese-Canadian lawyer prompts new trial
Post by: JFC on February 03, 2008, 09:08:36 PM

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"We'd hoped we'd moved beyond this and we apparently have not. It's upsetting,"

That pretty much sums things up.

/me shakes head in disbelief.