Kelley v. Colorado Mobile Home Licensing Board

TURSI, Judge.

Knight Mobile Homes, Inc., seeks reversal of the trial court’s denial of Knight’s motion for new trial which motion was based on alleged improper jury conduct and jury coercion through inadvertence. We affirm.

On a Friday, after a three-day trial, the jury retired to deliberate at approximately 4:10 p.m. At 4:50 p.m., the trial court recalled the jurors and was informed that they had not yet reached a verdict. The court then began to dismiss the jurors for the weekend, instructing them to return to the court on the following Monday to resume deliberation. Two jurors requested to…