The Georgia Supreme Court has agreed to review a Court of Appeals decision that tossed a defense verdict in a medical malpractice case because the trial judge didn’t tell the lawyers he had received and responded to a note from jurors suggesting they were deadlocked.
But even if the justices say the trial judge’s handling of the jury note shouldn’t upend the verdict, the plaintiffs still could get a new trial, because the Supreme Court also has agreed to review the lower courts’ treatment of a destruction of evidence issue.
