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'Several' Jurors Who Rejected Sarah Palin's Defamation Suit Against the New York Times Received Push Alerts Telling Them the Judge Dismissed It https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/several-jurors-who-rejected-sarah-palins-defamation-suit-against-the-new-york-times-received-push-alerts-telling-them-the-judge-dismissed-it/ via @lawcrimenews
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'Several' Jurors Who Rejected Sarah Palin's Defamation Suit Against the New York Times Received...
A judge said "several" jurors heard about his ruling dismissing Sarah Palin's lawsuit against the Times via push alerts before they rejected it, too.
11:26 AM · Feb 16, 2022
Adam Klasfeld
@KlasfeldReports
DEVELOPING:
'Several' Jurors Who Rejected Sarah Palin's Defamation Suit Against the New York Times Received Push Alerts Telling Them the Judge Dismissed It https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/several-jurors-who-rejected-sarah-palins-defamation-suit-against-the-new-york-times-received-push-alerts-telling-them-the-judge-dismissed-it/ via @lawcrimenews
lawandcrime.com
'Several' Jurors Who Rejected Sarah Palin's Defamation Suit Against the New York Times Received...
A judge said "several" jurors heard about his ruling dismissing Sarah Palin's lawsuit against the Times via push alerts before they rejected it, too.
11:26 AM · Feb 16, 2022
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/several-jurors-who-rejected-sarah-palins-defamation-suit-against-the-new-york-times-received-push-alerts-telling-them-the-judge-dismissed-it/
Several of the federal jurors who rejected Sarah Palins defamation lawsuit against the New York Times received push notifications on their phones informing them that the judge had dismissed the case a day earlier, according to a new court document.
Senior U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff wrote that the jurors told his clerk that his ruling did not factor into their deliberations.
Late yesterday, in the course of such an inquiry in this case in which the jury confirmed that they had fully understood the instructions and had no suggestions regarding jury instructions for future cases several jurors volunteered to the law clerk that, prior to the rendering of the jury verdict in this case, they had learned of the fact of this Courts Rule 50 determination on Monday to dismiss the case on legal grounds, Rakoff wrote in a two-page order on Wednesday.
Legal experts questioned the timing of Rakoffs ruling on Tuesday, which found that no reasonable jury could have found actual malice in the Timess 2017 editorial falsely linking Palin to Jared Lee Loughners mass shooting.
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The judge was stupid. He could have waited until the jury finished deliberations or just granted a directed verdict before the jury even had to deliberate.
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'Several' Jurors Who Rejected Palin's Defamation Suit Against the NYT knew judge dismissed (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Feb 2022
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Wounded Bear
(58,708 posts)1. Not suprising...they weren't sequestered...nt
EYESORE 9001
(25,979 posts)2. Trying to open the door for a mistrial?
I dont know looks suspicious to me.
RockRaven
(14,998 posts)3. While in theory this could be fodder for an appeal, so long as the jurors all stick to their guns
that it didn't influence their verdict at all, the courts probably let it stand.
Chainfire
(17,640 posts)4. Why would Jurors, in deliberation, have access to their cell phones?
That would mean that they could be getting "advice" or threats from anyone in the world. Like I said, messy.
PJMcK
(22,048 posts)10. They weren't sequestered
Besides, this was a civil case.
Tomconroy
(7,611 posts)5. Even smart judges do dumb things. Most would wait until
after the verdict to make that ruling. Kinda dumb, Judge Rakoff.
Nevilledog
(51,197 posts)6. More would grant the motion for a directed verdict.
Tomconroy
(7,611 posts)7. He was reversed before on the case. Once bitten, twice shy.
Nevilledog
(51,197 posts)9. He's looking at #3
MineralMan
(146,331 posts)8. Is there any corroboration for this?
Two threads on it, but just one link to lawandcrime.com, whatever that might be. I went to the site, which has the appearance of an ad-heavy clickbait site.
I need some additional sources here.