Lioce v. Cohen

*6OPINION

By the Court,

Hardesty, J.:

INTRODUCTION

On December 28, 2006, this court issued an opinion in these consolidated appeals.2 The defendants in each of the four underlying personal injury cases were represented by the same attorney, who gave substantially the same closing argument on behalf of his clients at each trial. Asserting that defense counsel’s closing arguments constituted misconduct, the plaintiffs sought new trials, with varying success.

In that opinion, we revised the standards under which district courts are to evaluate requests for new trials based on attorney misconduct. Next,…