Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Jury Deliberates in a Road Rage Accident

The jury found it hard to reach a decision in a case of gross negligence discharge of a firearm filed against police officer Frank White. White was involved in the road rage incident that injured a woman and her son.

The jury seemed to need more time as deliberations was set to continue the next day instead of giving it on the scheduled day.

White’s lawyer Rick Pinckard, as closing argument, said that his client was only defending himself from what he believed a threat to his life and that of his wife. Thus, he pulled a gun as a consequence. He said further that White was not aware that a boy was on board the car at the time he pulled the trigger of his gun.

Every case has two sides, that of the plaintiff and that of the defendant. Each party tries his best to convince the jury to side with him. While the jury never witnessed what happened, pieces of evidence presented by each party are scrutinized and evaluated as a way of knowing the truth or an approximation thereof.

This case showed the advantage of having a good personal injury lawyer to lead a party from pursuing his interest – a lawyer who would do everything to argue at his client’s advantage.

Everyone hopes that at the end of all this true justice would be served to whoever mostly deserves it.