A partner in Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith argues that a judge’s $5,000 sanction against him was too harsh, because he only accidentally showed a jury a piece of unadmitted evidence that the judge had ruled was not for the jury’s eyes.

But the opposing side countered that the disclosure by Houston lawyer Earl Touchstone was purposeful, and the sanction necessary.

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