Jones v. Sisters of Providence in Wash.

Frederick L. Jones, Sr., appeals the judgment entered on the jury’s verdict in his medical malpractice action against Sisters of Providence in Washington d/b/a Providence Medical Center, Susan Lo, M.D., and Richard G. Foutch, M.D., contending that the trial court committed reversible error when it allowed an alternate juror to participate in the jury’s deliberations without a vote. Because the alternate juror’s participation in the jury deliberations violated the cardinal requirement that juries must deliberate in private, and because it does not affirmatively appear that there was not and…