Faria v. Harleysville Worcester Insurance Co.

THOMPSON, Circuit Judge.

Jury selection is a fundamental step in our legal process, and when juror-screening mechanisms do not function as they are meant to, we end up faced with situations such as the one in this case: a post-verdict discovery that an individual served as a juror when he should not have cleared preliminary procedural hurdles due to a prior felony conviction prompted a new-trial motion challenging the jury’s verdict. But even though this individual slipped through the qualification cracks, his inclusion is not fatal to the jury’s verdict. We conclude that the district court…