Grace Schara Wrongful Death Hearing: Motion for New Trial

After the June 19th verdict concerning the case of Schara v. Ascension Health, Scott filed a motion for a new trial based on the denial of his Motions in Limine (MIL).

It states in the Motion, "Throughout the trial, this Court allowed Defendants to attack Plaintiff and his family members with their religious beliefs and expressions and views on medicine and the broader health care system, with the presumed purpose and clear effect of undermining their credibility with the jury...Despite all indications that Plaintiff was pursuing the truth, the Court denied his motions in limine on the purported basis that there is a high enough likelihood that a man who has promised not to financially benefit from a jury verdict and wants his daughter's death certificate changed to the truth would lie under oath in order to accomplish this."

It goes on to read, "The jury did not decide the real controversy - why Grace died. The jury decided to discredit Plaintiff's religious beliefs and expressions and his personal opinions of negative bias toward medicine and the broader healthcare system, and then it threw the baby out with the bathwater. In the interests of justice for Grace, and all the other victims with cases affected by her landmark case, the Court should order a new trial in which the real controversy of why Grace died can be decided by a jury not prejudiced by evidence improperly admitted by an objectively biased judge."

The hearing to seek a motion for a new trial will be streamed on CHD.TV, Friday the 19th of December, at 12:00pm EST.