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So you have skeletons in your closet and you are injured in an accident or by medical malpractice
will the jury learn about that how are we going to handle the situation Hi I am Dr.
guy DiMartino I am an injury and accident lawyer and today I like to talk to you about
this issue of skeletons in your closet or things that might have happened in your life
before the accident injury which come could come back to bite you right in the keister
the first thing that we have to deal with and the first thing that you have to know
is you have to be open and honest with your attorney you can't hold anything back you
have to tell them anything that might have happened whether criminal incident where it's
a problem with drugs whatever it might be that needs to be on the table up front for
a number of reasons number one attorney can go ahead and give you his or her advice about
what to do number two the attorney can protect you and you can be protected in the number
of ways the way that we handle this if you the case has to go to trial is we file a pleading
or a motion with the court it's called a motion in limine and we bring this issue before the
court and we asked the court whether the court will it admit this information into evidence
and a jury would find out or if the court will keep it out because maybe it's not relevant
to the issues in the case so if we can get a ruling pretrial from the judge regarding
this skeleton we will be able to formulate our strategy about how we are going to deal
with the case if the judge is going to keep it out then we have nothing to worry about
if the judge is going to allow the information in and the information is really damning it
might be better off to settle the case or we have to handle it ourselves with the jury
so the first time the jury doesn't hear about it is when the defendant either questions
you or questions another witness skeletons in the closet can impact injury and accident
case but you have to be up front with you lawyer you have to deal with them and there
are many ways that we can deal with them if you have any questions about an injury and
accident case or medical malpractice case I'll spend a few moments with you you can
call me directly on my cell phone at three five two-two six seven-nine one six eight
or visit our website and blog thank you and have yourself a great day