It doesn’t surprise nor enrage me what California does… I live here and I’m fully expecting to take a dive into the pacific when California is the first state to file for bankruptcy protection. California is a model on how to corrupt the jury system, the system has failed in California not because it’s a bad system but the people sitting on the jury don’t have two brain cells to rub together. This isn’t second hand knowledge but first hand as I was lucky enough to server on a trial to see firsthand how the system is manipulated.
I was an alternate on a trail, three plaintiffs vs. Ford Motor Company. All through the evidence, I kept asking myself how did this case get this far? It boils down to a 15 year old van owned by a church had a tire de-tread on Hwy 99. The majority of the occupancies were not seat belts or wearing them correctly, after the tire de-treaded, the driver didn’t slow down (witness that survived stated hearing another passenger tell the driver to not slow down) and drove off of the freeway between 60 and 70 mph. The van flipped three times killing the driver and front seat passenger, everyone else was injured badly. My point is how the hell is Ford liable for your stupidity? I can see how illegals making anything worse than it already is… By the way, the jury awarded the plaintiffs 85 million dollars, I was the only dissenting opinion but my opinion didn’t count as I was an alternate. These people had already settled out of court Sears (the company that sold them the tire), Goodyear (the manufacture of the tire) and other business that had serviced the van over the years.
Our system is corrupt from within by stupidity, a few more wont hurt.