Fulton County State Court Judge Susan Edlein declared a mistrial after three days of deliberations left a jury deadlocked in a case involving a wreck that led to the deaths of an elderly couple after their car rear-ended a utility truck parked on a Gwinnett County.
Attorneys for both sides said that jurors revealed after they were dismissed that the lone holdout thought the driver should bear 30 percent of the blame for the crash, while the rest dug in with a demand that he only be apportioned 20 percent. “There was no way for Judge Edlein to know they were that close, because they had so clearly expressed their deadlocked frustration,” said plaintiffs attorney Jay Sadd. Their unwillingness to split the difference, he noted, meant that the jury “essentially deadlocked over 5 percent liability.”
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