Law Prof’s Article on His Jury Experience Leads to Overturned Verdict

A Seton Hall law professor served on a jury and was named the foreperson. Later he wrote an article in a legal newspaper reflecting on his experience and said that the other jurors had asked him to explain legal concepts, such as proximate cause. The defendant in the tort case asked the trial court to overturn the verdict against it, but the trial court said that the professor's influence wasn't that great. But the appellate court said that a new trial was needed. Law Prof’s Article on His Jury Experience Leads to Overturned Verdict | ABA Journal - Law News Now, March 19, 2009. (The comments are worth skimming.)

The case is Barber v. ShopRite of Englewood (N.J. Super. App. Div., March 19, 2009), available here.

Thanks: Maureen Howard.