Johnson v. Kolovos

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• no abuse of discretion in denying motion for mistrial after the plaintiff and a juror had a conversation unrelated to the case during recess
• the granting of a mistrial is within the discretion of the trial judge who is in a better position to “understand the circumstances surrounding the conversation, the nature of it, the physical conditions in the courthouse, and the effect of the conversation upon the case.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).