Gonsalves v. Sok CA3
Chanel Gonsalves sued Sal Sok after he rear-ended her in a car accident. A jury afterward awarded her around $17,000 in damages. Gonsalves now appeals the judgment on that verdict, arguing that the trial proceedings were unfair in two respects. First, she argues that the trial court wrongly allowed the jury to view during its deliberations a timeline of events that Sok’s counsel had used in closing arguments. She reasons that because the timeline was never admitted into evidence, the court should not have allowed the jury to view it in deliberations. Second, she contends that Sok’s counsel improperly told the jury that Gonsalves’s medical treatment following the accident was “attorney driven”—which, she asserts, “plays on the pre-conceived notions that plaintiff’s lawyers are all ambulance chasers that belong at the bottom of the sea.” We affirm.
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