STARKVILLE, Miss. - A mistrial was declared Tuesday in a medical malpractice case after three jurors said they had been patients at the clinic where the doctor being sued had worked. Angela Poe had sued Dr. William R. Locke, of the Starkville Clinic for Women, alleging the doctor was negligent in the prenatal care and birth of her son, Marvin Winford Poe. As part of the process, lawyers had asked potential jurors whether they had been patients at the clinic or had any kind of relationship with it or its staff. On Tuesday, as the court was preparing for opening arguments, Poe's attorney J.C. Patton told the Circuit Judge Jim Kitchens that three of the jurors had been patients at the clinic.
Posted by Editor at February 3, 2004 04:37 AM