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To: one_less who wrote (1898)	9/28/2006 10:03:57 AM
From: mph	Read Replies (1) of 10087

He didn't lose any benefits. He just didn't "win" any money because the jury realized he was lying, and he ended up owing my client costs. The issue was whether he really was injured in the incident. I couldn't prove that the incident didn't happen or that the chair did not break or that it wasn't defective. So liability was a problem for me as defense counsel. My issue was damages. He had a bad back for years and claimed an exacerbation in an incident scenario which should not have caused any injury. He also claimed to have been asymptomatic at the time and that he could no longer work thereafter. Basically was looking for the jury to give him early retirement by paying him in present value for 25 years of work through age 65 (he was 40ish). So he wanted well over a million plus future medical care, etc. The lying particularly hurt him because he was the only witness to whether he was asymptomatic at the time. I emphasized that as well as a jury instruction which says that if a person has been untruthful in one area, his testimony can be discounted in all areas unless the jury finds that the testimony was more likely than not to be true in the additional areas. And no, no perjury charges.

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