Judge upholds verdict though juror said she didn't remember deliberations had ended
A Connecticut judge has upheld a verdict for a fired truck driver even though a juror said she didn’t recall deliberations or the announcement of a verdict.
Judge William Rush upheld the $225,000 verdict for Dwight Daley last Friday, the Connecticut Post reports.
Daley had sued Arkansas trucking company J.B. Hunt Transport after his supervisors refused to allow him to return to work because he hadn’t received authorization from all of his doctors following a motorcycle injury. Daley had a doctor’s note but he was unable to get an appointment with one of his doctors. He was fired as a result, he claimed. Jurors awarded $225,000 on Aug. 11.
The next day, one of the jurors returned to court and said she was ready to resume deliberations. She became upset after learning of the verdict and told the court in a letter that she didn’t remember the deliberations or the verdict announcement. She also said she will be getting an evaluation for dementia because her mother had early-onset Alzheimer’s.
Rush said the juror’s failure to remember the verdict wasn’t sufficient reason to overturn the verdict. “The fact that, after the lengthy deliberations and the process rendering and acceptance of the verdict, a juror does not remember those events does not mean that they did not take place in accordance with our laws,” Rush wrote.
