{"id":5674,"date":"2015-11-05T10:00:34","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T16:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=5674"},"modified":"2015-11-05T08:15:30","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T14:15:30","slug":"illinois-appellate-court-outlines-procedure-for-objection-and-request-for-mistrial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-outlines-procedure-for-objection-and-request-for-mistrial\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Appellate Court Outlines Procedure for Objection and Request for Mistrial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a lawsuit and jury trial in which the defendant, Mel Richard Krumske, admitted liability causing injury to the plaintiff, Kevin Burkhamer, Burkhamer\u2019s attorney asked on direct examination whether the defendant ever called the plaintiff to \u201capologize\u201d for causing the crash. Krumske\u2019s attorney then immediately objected and requested a mistrial. The trial judge sustained the objection and acknowledged at a sidebar that an instruction to the jury to disregard what might be an inadequate remedy for the unfair prejudice likely caused by the improper questioning would be given. However, the judge postponed ruling on the request for a mistrial and did not rule on the motion to render a mistrial until after the jury\u2019s verdict.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the jury trial on damages, the verdict for the plaintiff Burkhamer was $175,000. The jury was discharged. But before the judgment was entered, the defendant\u2019s attorney reminded the judge about the lingering motion for a mistrial. Concluding the verdict might have been \u201cinflated by passion\u201d the judge said she was granting \u201cthe motion for a new trial,\u201d although Krumske, the defendant never filed a posttrial motion.<\/p>\n<p>The Illinois Appellate Court accepted an immediate appeal by the plaintiff under Illinois Supreme Court <a href=\"http:\/\/www.illinoiscourts.gov\/supremecourt\/rules\/Art_III\/ArtIII.htm#306\">Rule 306<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-outlines-procedure-for-objection-and-request-for-mistrial\/#more-5674\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a lawsuit and jury trial in which the defendant, Mel Richard Krumske, admitted liability causing injury to the plaintiff, Kevin Burkhamer, Burkhamer\u2019s attorney asked on direct examination whether the defendant ever called the plaintiff to \u201capologize\u201d for causing the crash. Krumske\u2019s attorney then immediately objected and requested a mistrial. The trial judge sustained the [&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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[91,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appellate-procedure","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>Illinois Appellate Court Outlines Procedure for Objection and Request for Mistrial &#8212; Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In a lawsuit and jury trial in which the defendant, Mel Richard Krumske, admitted liability causing injury to the plaintiff, Kevin Burkhamer, Burkhamer\u2019s\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-outlines-procedure-for-objection-and-request-for-mistrial\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Illinois Appellate Court Outlines Procedure for Objection and Request for Mistrial &#8212; 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