Agro Distribution, LLC v. Rowe

In this personal injury case, the trial court overruled the defendant’s attempted peremptory strike of a juror. Plaintiff had objected to the attempted strike, arguing that the juror was the only member of her race who would be serving on the jury. During voir dire examination, the juror related that she was the principal of a public school for mentally retarded students. She was “very much bonded to all of the students.” One of her students, a second-grader, died in a motor vehicle accident. The child’s grandmother was her close friend and co-worker, and she sympathized with her over the…