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Published on Friday, May 16, 2008
By Daily News Wire Services
Jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday in the three remaining civil cases stemming from the Santa Monica farmers' market tragedy of July 2003, when 10 people were killed by an out-of-control car driven by an 86-year-old man.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge William A. MacLauglin issued a series of pretrial rulings Thursday, including one that forbids the plaintiffs' lawyers -- absent approval from the judge -- from mentioning to jurors during the trial that vehicles are now parked on both ends of the market to reduce the likelihood of a recurrence of what happened that day.
Had those vehicles been in place that day, the accident could have been prevented, said Geoffrey S. Wells, an attorney for one group of plaintiffs. When prospective jurors are brought to the downtown Los Angeles courtroom on Monday, they will be given a questionnaire to determine their ability to serve on a long trial as well as their knowledge of the July 16, 2003, incident
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