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I hope all is well. I am contacting you today to inform you of the judge’s decision to postpone your trial until the next trial calendar. We can’t express enough how upset we are at the judge’s decision. We know that you are seeking closure and we want the same thing. I want you to know that we did not accept this decision without a fight. Please allow me the opportunity to express our attempts to prevent the judge from postponing your trial and then outline what we intend to do moving forward to fight for an earlier trial day. As you know, about a month ago, we were notified that a new attorney would be representing the Defendant. The new attorney filed a leave of absence with the court for January 17-22. The Fulton County State Court …show more content…

James Thompson is your physical therapist. He oversaw your physical therapy in both your 2015 and 2016 wreck. His testimony is necessary to explain to the jury how you became injured, why you still feel pain, and what your prognosis is for the future. Dr. Thompson also has visuals that he will use to show the jury where and why you still feel pain. For these reasons and more, we requested that the judge allow us to proceed with the trial on Thursday, January 24th. Yesterday, at 11:30 a.m., we received an email from the judge. The judge informed us, and opposing counsel, that it was unlikely that we would be going to trial on Thursday, January 24 for following reasons: 1. Opposing counsel’s leave of absence for January 17-22. 2. The court’s concern that the parties would not be able to complete the trial in 2 days given jury selection and the number of witnesses. In light of these concerns we provided the judge with the following options for his consideration: 1. We informed the judge that we were willing to have each party limit their jury selection to 30 minutes as an effort to shorten the trial. 2. We informed the judge that outside of our main witnesses, we were willing to limit our examination of all other witnesses to 15-20 minutes per witness. (There are only 5 witnesses in this case and opposing counsel has no witnesses other than the

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