Melissa Carrasco v. F&W Rental, L.L.C., Rick West and Carrie West

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• accepting that, “[i]n refrain- ing from exposing the content of jury deliberations, . . . a trial judge may not be able to determine conclusively” whether allegations of juror misconduct are legitimate
• explaining the trial court’s “investigative power . . . puts it in the best position to evaluate the jury’s ability to deliberate” (quotation marks omitted)
• finding district court erred in dismissing juror when record showed reasonable possibility that juror’s view of merits of case were basis of removal
• noting also that “as a general matter, the district court [is] in the best position to evaluate the jury’s ability to deliberate.”
• error to dismiss juror because it was reasonably possible that impetus for removal came from her position on merits of case
• “‘Juror privacy is a prerequisite of free debate, without which the decisionmaking process would be crippled.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).