McKenney v. Jersey City Medical Center

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

COLEMAN, J.

This medical malpractice case raises two narrow issues: whether defense counsel has an obligation to communicate material changes in defense witnesses’ testimony to counsel for the plaintiffs when defense counsel discovers that there will be such change prior to the witness testifying, and whether plaintiffs were entitled to a mistrial when the anticipated change in testimony was not disclosed until after plaintiffs had rested. We conclude that because a mistrial should have been declared, plaintiffs are entitled to a new trial.

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A

Plaintiffs…