While oral arguments before the state Supreme Court last Wednesday over whether Pennsylvania should adopt the consistent juror rule focused on a number of esoteric debates, Chief Justice Ralph J. Cappy cut to the chase.
The question, he said, is whether Pennsylvania is going to follow the approach of some states, such as Ohio and Wisconsin, which require that the same jurors vote the same on interrogatories or follow other states, such as Nebraska, New York, and New Jersey, which require only that the sum of the answers add up to the requisite majority.
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