{"id":3789,"date":"2025-01-20T16:17:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T16:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/trial-court-had-no-authority-to-reopen-voir-dire-after-jury-impaneled-in-civil-case-state-appellate-court-rules\/"},"modified":"2025-01-20T16:17:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T16:17:00","slug":"trial-court-had-no-authority-to-reopen-voir-dire-after-jury-impaneled-in-civil-case-state-appellate-court-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/trial-court-had-no-authority-to-reopen-voir-dire-after-jury-impaneled-in-civil-case-state-appellate-court-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Trial Court Had No Authority to Reopen Voir Dire After Jury Impaneled in Civil Case, State Appellate Court Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>In a matter of first impression, the North Carolina Court of Appeals on Wednesday found that a trial court had no authority to grant a request to remove and replace a juror in a civil case after the jury had already been impaneled. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/assets.alm.com\/f7\/8c\/06e0e5df4d1da35c0b49b963ef58\/24-453-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" link-data=\"{\" cms.site.owner=\"\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">a Jan. 15 opinion<\/a>, the North Carolina Court of Appeals remanded a judgment entered against a couple who sued another couple for negligence, nuisance and trespassing on their property. Although the defendants suspected a juror of personal connections to the plaintiffs and won a verdict from the jury, Appellate Judge Allegra Collins ruled a trial court cannot allow a peremptory challenge and reopen a jury after it&#8217;s impaneled. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a matter of first impression, the North Carolina Court of Appeals on Wednesday found that a trial court had no authority to grant a request to remove [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1389,2475,294,2137,143,4350,4351,392,3052,351,1911,342,4349],"class_list":["post-3789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-appellate","tag-authority","tag-case","tag-civil","tag-court","tag-dire","tag-impaneled","tag-jury","tag-reopen","tag-rules","tag-state","tag-trial","tag-voir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}