{"id":2428,"date":"2013-11-29T10:00:43","date_gmt":"2013-11-29T16:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=2428"},"modified":"2019-10-28T10:34:52","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T10:34:52","slug":"us-court-appeals-reverses-jury-verdict-use-demonstrative-evidence-jury-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/us-court-appeals-reverses-jury-verdict-use-demonstrative-evidence-jury-room\/","title":{"rendered":"US Court of Appeals Reverses Jury Verdict Over the Use of Demonstrative Evidence in the Jury Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">John Baugh sustained a severe brain injury when the Cuprum ladder that he was using to clean his gutters buckled and collapsed.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Baugh\u2019s wife Sharon filed a lawsuit on his behalf against Cuprum S.A.de C.V. claiming that the defective design and the manufacturer\u2019s negligence was the cause of her husband&#8217;s injuries.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>John could not testify as to what happened to him because of his injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">About three months before the beginning of the trial, the defendant, Cuprum, informed plaintiff\u2019s attorney that it intended to use an exemplar of the actual ladder at the jury trial. The exemplar ladder was new, but had been built to the exact specifications to the ladder that Baugh had used.<span>\u00a0<\/span>In a pretrial conference on Feb. 1, 2011, Cuprum\u2019s exemplar ladder was marked as an exhibit \u201cfor Demonstrative Purposes.\u201d<span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>The plaintiff\u2019s counsel objected to any use of the new exemplar ladder at trial.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Discovery had been closed for two years.<span>\u00a0<\/span>The ladder had not been included in Cuprum\u2019s expert disclosures.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In response to the objection, Cuprum argued that the exemplar ladder was for demonstrative purposes and that it would be used during direct examination of its expert witness.<span>\u00a0<\/span>It was not intended to be substantive evidence.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Cuprum also argued that the exemplar ladder would be used to demonstrate and help the jury understand the expert\u2019s testimony.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/us-court-appeals-reverses-jury-verdict-use-demonstrative-evidence-jury-room\/#more-2428\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Baugh sustained a severe brain injury when the Cuprum ladder that he was using to clean his gutters buckled and collapsed.\u00a0Baugh\u2019s wife Sharon filed a lawsuit on his behalf against Cuprum S.A.de C.V. claiming that the defective design and the manufacturer\u2019s negligence was the cause of her husband&#8217;s injuries.\u00a0 John could not testify as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[91,30,75,76,80,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appellate-procedure","category-experts","category-product-defect-litigation","category-product-liability","category-scaffold-fall-injuries","category-trial-practice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>US Court of Appeals Reverses Jury Verdict Over the Use of Demonstrative Evidence in the Jury Room &#8212; 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