Tipsy Juror Leads to New Trial in Kentucky Personal Injury Lawsuit
A Louisville, Kentucky personal injury lawsuit will undergo a new trial after a judge learned that a juror became drunk during the initial trial. A verdict had already been reached in a personal injury case involving a woman claiming she sustained car accident injuries in a collision with a garbage truck when Judge Geoffrey Morris of Jefferson Count Circuit Court learned some less than intoxicating news. A female juror had been drinking vodka from her plastic water bottle throughout the trial!
The jury foreman told Morris that the juror was disruptive during deliberations and so drunk that she couldn’t participate in coming to a verdict. Morris dismissed the woman from jury duty and had her husband pick her up from the courthouse. She was not sanctioned or mentioned in Morris’ court order, which stated that the juror’s actions were so extraordinary that a new trial should be granted.