“Well, bragging isn’t a great irregularity,” Crandall said. Jorge Ledezma, the attorney for the Sanchez family, said McKenna had improperly pointed the finger at other medical personnel as culpable in Sanchez’s death, contrary to an agreement not to do so, and later bragged about it on tape. Seems like an admission the plaintiff should have prevailed.” “That seems like an admission of negligence. Then he goes on to say, ‘But we kind of made it look like other people did it,’” the judge said. “When he says on video a ‘guy was probably negligently killed,’ probably is more likely than not.
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In a hearing to decide whether a new trial was warranted, Crandall said he found the celebration video “extremely important.” But he apologized after an embarrassing video of him leading a celebration of the verdict was posted online. Then came the celebration video, and an apologyĪn Orange County attorney defending a doctor in a personal-injury case won a unanimous verdict. Central to the family’s case was the death certificate, which blamed the death on sepsis and peritonitis due to a tube-perforated colon.Ĭalifornia An O.C. Quraishi inserted a feeding tube that accidentally pierced Sanchez’s colon and led to a fatal infection, according to the lawsuit filed by Sanchez’s family. He had severe abdominal pain from alcohol-related pancreatitis. The case involves Enrique Garcia Sanchez, 49, a forklift operator who was admitted to South Coast Global Medical Center in Santa Ana in November 2017.
“I think I have to protect the system and say plaintiffs deserve a new trial,” Orange County Superior Court Judge James Crandall said at an Aug. That was before his lawyer, Robert McKenna III, appeared in an online celebration video, bragging of his work and saying the case involved “a guy that was probably negligently killed, but we kind of made it look like other people did it.”Ĭiting McKenna’s remarks, the judge who presided over the trial has vacated the verdict, ordering the case back to court. Swiftly and unanimously, 12 jurors had decided that the gastroenterologist had not been responsible for the death of a patient. Essam Quraishi left an Orange County civil courtroom in victory. When his medical malpractice trial concluded in April, Dr.