A Clayton County jury trial involving a multivehicle accident was scuttled just before deliberations began when two jurors got into a heated altercation, unleashing what a lawyer termed “mayhem” in the jury room and spurring the judge to eject the warring panelists and declare a mistrial.
Plaintiff’s attorney James “Jeb” Butler III of Butler Tobin said he was somewhat constrained in discussing the blowup because the case must be retried, but he said other members of the jury apparently tried without success to calm the two women involved.
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