Hernandez v. Home Depot USA, Inc.

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• holding that the error in excluding the plaintiffs expert testimony on the issue of negligence was unfairly exacerbated and compounded when in closing defense counsel stated: “What is the evidence that we were negligent?”
• granting a new trial where counsel, after succeeding in excluding evidence, raised in closing opposing counsel’s failure to present the excluded evidence
• granting a new trial where counsel, after succeeding in excluding evidence, raised in closing opposing counsel’s failure to present the excluded evidence
• reversal required because defense counsel, after succeeding in excluding proffered testimony of plaintiff's expert that defendant had created an unsafe condition, in closing argument \whipsawed the plaintiff for not producing that very testimony\
• error in excluding plaintiffs expert testimony on the issue of negligence was unfairly exacerbated and compounded when, in final argument, defense counsel stated: “What is the evidence that we were negligent?”

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