Wyatt v. Marcus
Wyatt v. Marcus
Opinion of the Court
We review the trial court’s order granting a new trial based on numerous improper comments made by plaintiffs counsel during closing argument and the cumulative effect of those comments. A trial court’s decision to grant a new trial is reviewed for abuse of discretion. See Engle v. Liggett Group, Inc., 945 So.2d 1246, 1263 (Fla. 2006); Murphy v. Int’l Robotic Sys. Inc., 766 So.2d 1010 (Fla. 2000).
In this case, all of the improper comments cited by the trial court in its order granting a new trial were addressed through the trial court’s consideration of defense counsel’s motions for mistrials both during and at the end of plaintiffs closing argument.
Affirmed.
. We note that many of the improper comments made by plaintiff’s counsel were also objected to by defense counsel during closing argument.
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