Leroy McCoy and Ladie Byrd Crawford v. Arthur B. Goldston, Jr., Richard Papciak and the City of Detroit Policedepartment

NATHANIEL R. JONES, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs appeal the district court’s denial of their motion for either an evidentiary hearing or a new trial. In support of their motion, plaintiffs argued that one juror failed to disclose information during voir dire concerning her competency to sit on the case. For the reasons set forth below, we reverse the judgment of the district court and remand the case for an evidentia-ry hearing.

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Arthur Goldston, Jr. and Richard Papc-iak, two Detroit police officers, were on a routine patrol on October 17, 1974 in an area of Detroit which had an infestation of…