And You thought Grisham Just Made this Crap Up

In the testimony that followed a Feb. 22 mistrial motion by Ford against a $31 million verdict against the automaker from Zavala County, Texas, it was revealed that not only had a juror, Diana Palacios, "failed to acknowledge her romantic entanglement [with plaintiff's attorney Jesse Gamez] during jury selection, but had previously been a client of Gamez in other litigation, had been an aunt by marriage of one of the plaintiffs and indeed had solicited the plaintiffs to sue Ford and Guerrero and hire Gamez as their lawyer...."