DETROIT, June 26 (UPI) -- A juror whose behavior prompted a request for a new trial for a Detroit Red Wings player and the team masseur says the original trial lawyers were "awful."
Gay Alcenius, 45, a juror in the Detroit traffic injury trial for Red Wings defenseman Vladimir Konstantinov and masseur Sergei Mnatsakonov, said the plaintiffs' lawyers didn't do their job, the Detroit Free Press reported.
She said lawyers Richard Goodman and Kathleen Kalahar showed up for court unprepared, badgered witnesses and took forever to present their case in U.S. District Court in Detroit. She said the lawyers didn't have a case and felt they were wasting her time.
It was Alcenius' behavior in the jury box, deemed "hostile" by Kalahar, that formed the basis for a new trial request, the Free Press said.
The original trial ended Monday with the jury concluding that Findlay Ford Lincoln Mercury wasn't responsible for the debilitating injuries the men suffered in a 1997 limousine crash, the newspaper report said.
