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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, October 04 2012 @ 02:35 PM EDT |
I don't think she will. If she does not throw out this verdict then Samsung
will appeal, and their appeal will contain a number of allegations that she and
her judge magistrate mishandled this trial and were biased towards Apple. Those
allegations will not be pretty. Just the jury issue is big enough that Samsung
stands a reasonable chance of the appeals court overruling her. But they might
feel the need to respond to the other issues, and rap her over the knuckles.
She knows this jury did wrong by Samsung. She repeatedly urged them to settle
before jury deliberations because she saw the evidence presented in court and
knew that a reasonable jury would have found most of the patents invalid. She
knows there is no way a reasonable jury could have deliberated this case in just
2.5 days, and she can see they went so fast they made all sorts of basic
logic/math errors. She knows both sides fought hard and dirty. But she's also
likely to be more ticked off with Apple because their final closing was fairly
xenophobic towards Koreans and she's also likely to be really cross with the
foreman for wasting her time while thinking he was helping by preventing the
jury from asking her questions.
This is an easy out for her. She get the jurors back in, asks them some
questions, determines that Mr Hogan acted as an expert witness and legal expert,
and pulls the plug. Then she blames both sides for refusing to simplify the
case and making it too complex for a jury, pressuring the jury to take an easy
out.
Regards,
-Jeremy[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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