Betty Karl v. Burlington Northern Railroad Company

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• stating that Federal Rule 29 of Evidence 606 allows juror testimony about a “clerical error” in recording the verdict but not about “the jury’s understanding of the court’s instructions”
• “A clerical error would be one where the foreperson wrote down ... a damage amount different from that agreed upon by the jury.”
• “We conclude, however, that the method by which the court ascer tabled the jury’s ‘true verdict’ — receiving testimony from the jurors after they had returned a verdict and after the jury had been discharged — is prohibited by Fed.R.Evid. 606(b)”

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