United States Tenth Circuit

In a tort action arising from an auto accident, judgment for Plaintiff is reversed, where Plaintiff's counsel during closing argument placed before the jury fictitious admissions never uttered by Defendants and launched vituperative and unprovoked attacks on Defendants and their counsel.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/03/2009
• Published 04/03/2009

Judges

• GORSUCH, Circuit Judge., Before McCONNELL, EBEL, and GORSUCH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Michael L. Carr (Steven E. Holden and Jane R. Cowdery, with him on the briefs), Holden Carr & Skeens, Tulsa, OK, for Defendants-Appellants., Broadus A. Spivey, Broadus A. Spivey, P.C., Austin, TX, and Sam L. Stein, Whittenburg Whittenburg Stein & Strange, P.C., Cherokee, OK, for Plaintiff-Appellee.