Garnett v. McClellan

How courts have described this case

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• determining that juror's prior experience as a defendant in an auto accident was immaterial in challenge by defendant
• holding nondisclosure immaterial where juror in automobile negligence case failed to reveal she had been in an automobile accident involving only property damage
• finding that prior litigation experience was immaterial, in part, because the juror had been similarly situated to and was therefore more likely to be sympathetic to the complaining party
• applying abuse of discretion standard of review to order granting new trial because of juror concealment of information
• finding the nondisclosing juror to be “in the position of being a potential ‘defendant,’ and [therefore] it seems likely he would have been more sympathetic to the defense than to the plaintiff”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).