A lying jury costs the plaintiff a $28M malpractice verdict

Dude, the jury’s ‘lies’ didn’t cost the defendant anything: the defendant MD was the bad actor. No, the jury should not have lied about their backgrounds (if they did); but it is illogical to conclude that the MD would not have been found liable if the jury hadn’t lied about their past collisions with the legal system, most of which apparently had NOTHING to do with med mal and instead had to do with personal debts.

A true random cross-section of society will inevitably include people who have had experience with the court system. What is the alternative: to narrow the jury pool to only those deemed pure enough to serve?

It is a real stretch to maintain that the only reason the defendant lost his case was because of a couple of jurors. None of us, including the almighty Kevin, can say the verdict would have been different if these jurors weren’t on the case. And in any case, this defendant and his attorney can’t keep challenging the system until they get the verdict they want; they’ve had their day in court and they need to accept the verdict and move on.

I’ll bet if this case had gone the other way and the patient had lost and was challenging the verdict, Kevin et al. would all be carping at him to get over it already.