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We’re doing our closing arguments and the issue in the trial has been whether or not the elephant in the room has been addressed. The elephant usually is one of two things. Either there was no property damage, so how in the world could our client be injured, or the client had a prior injury and that’s really what was causing the injury –  didn’t have anything to do with this accident.

We have spoken about jury trials, jury instructions, and then started talking about proximate cause and how that plays a role in jury instructions. We have spoken about the auto accident that brought us to the trial and a potential overlap of medical malpractice and how that would work.

Let’s say you have your client on the witness stand, you’ve spent hours training and going over all the questions and all the scenarios that could come about and then…and then,your client says something in response to cross examination that is from "left field",completely not expected, and something not good that could substantially damage the case. Possibly your client loses his or her temper and in so doing says something that is either inaccurate or somethingthat just doesn’t come across right. What do you do then?

Charges are being considered against a 20 year old Edgewater man who turned himself in hours after a body was found along an Anne Arundel County highway in a suspected hit and run.

The House of Delegates will be working on a measure to expand gambling as a special session continues in Annapolis.

So we are sitting at trial and the jury pool is brought in, and those are the jurors who we are going to choose from as to who’s going to be sitting on our jury. We get a list that encompasses their names, their addresses, their employment, their education, their marital status and often the wife’s employment.
 

That is what the defense is going to base their defense on -their argument throughout the trial. The Defense will present blow up pictures of the car, they’ll have a doctor who has examined or has looked at the records of the Plaintiff and is willing to testify that there’s no way in the world that this Plaintiff could possibly have been injured from this accident – Impossible.

Roads Preparing for a Jury Trial, 101. It is all about attention to detail, and preparation. Of course we deal with auto torts, but the same is true for any kind of jury trial.

We talked last week a little bit about making the call to the adverse insurance company and what you should say and maybe what you shouldn’t say. A client of mine brought it up to me last week when we were getting ready for a deposition.

Anyway, we’ve been sitting around talking about the ramifications of contributory negligence and comparative negligence and if there was a change to comparative negligence, how that would actually affect the lives of our clients. We were talking about the Boulevard Law.