Laura A. Newman, LLC v. Roberts

T 1 During jury selection in this civil case, the plaintiff challenged a juror for cause, but the trial court denied the challenge," The plaintiff then exercised one of his peremptory challenges to excuse the juror. On appeal, the court of appeals held that the trial court's denial was erroneous. Roberts v. Newman, No. 11CA1851, slip op. at 3-4, 2013 WL 831763 (Colo.App. March 7, 2013). Then, relying on Blades v. DaFoe, 704 P.2d 317, 323 (Colo.1985), in which we adopted a rule of automatic reversal for such errors in civil Jury trials, the court reversed and remanded for a new trial without…