Although the trial has generated worldwide interest, it has exhausted the jury with hours of expert testimony from both sides.
PARK CITY, Utah – Gwyneth Paltrow’s attorneys continued to rely heavily on experts Wednesday, a seventh day, to bolster their defense. His 2016 ski collision is on trial. With a 76-year-old retired optometrist.
The judge presiding over the trial in Park City has made it clear he wants Paltrow’s defense team to rest its case until Thursday afternoon — to give the jury enough time to deliberate and reach a consensus. can reach
Terry Sanderson, a Utah man who is suing Paltrow, is seeking more than $300,000. Saying that Paltrow is reckless on the slop. The accident resulted in four broken ribs and several years of concussion symptoms including confusion, memory loss and irritability. Paltrow has countered with a symbolic $1 and attorney fees, Alleging that Sanderson infiltrated her. from behind.
In the second week of the trial, it’s clear that both sides have spared little money to ensure they have a list of expert witnesses when needed. Amid severe time constraints, several witnesses testified longer than expected.
Paltrow’s lawyers have repeatedly asked Judge Kent Holmberg to clarify the timeline for the eight-day trial. He reversed plans to cross-examine Sanderson to put time on the clock for four expert witnesses he said he had booked Tuesday at a nearby hotel.
Like Sanderson’s lawyers, Paltrow’s legal team is trying to gather all the testimony from family members, doctors and an accident reconstructionist in four days. He said Tuesday that he planned to call four additional experts to testify, but left the door open to calling her television producer husband, Stand Paltrow or Brad Falchuk.
Holmberg gave. To Sanderson The same amount of time to make his case.
Last week, Paltrow took the stand and insisted the ski collision was not her fault. Her lead attorney, Steve Owens, said earlier in the week that he planned to call Paltrow’s teenage children — Moses, 16, and Apple, 18 — to the witness stand. But as Sanderson’s testimony stretched into Monday, Paltrow’s legal team read statements from her two teenage children into the record, rather than calling them to the stand to testify.
Over the past two days, Paltrow’s defense team has relied primarily on expert witnesses, yet Tuesday read statements from Paltrow’s children into the record. They tried to get the jury’s attention by playing a series of high-resolution animations while their witnesses – including a collision expert, biomedical engineer, physician and ski instructor – all testified.
Animations are not included as trial evidence. Still, Sanderson’s lawyers have objected to their inclusion, arguing that Paltrow’s team is using animations to mislead the jury.
Although the trial has drawn viewers from around the world who have used the video clips circulating on social media as memes, it has tested the jury, whose eight members heard hours of testimony from expert witnesses. have slowly sunk deeper into their chairs.
After both sides make closing arguments on Thursday, the jury will likely deliver its verdict later that day or on Friday.