Excerpt: ...unsel for Ross made clear that his motion does not seek supplemental responses to his form interrogatories, but amended responses. To be sure, Code of Civil Procedure section 2030.310 permits an amended response to interrogatories at the discretion of the responding party containing information “subsequently discovered, inadvertently omitted or mistakenly stated in the original interrogatory.” (sic) This is distinguished from a further respon...

Excerpt: ...rst day of deliberations, the jury had not reached a verdict. The court released the juror and instructed an alternate to appear the following morning to begin deliberations. On April 29, a deputy sheriff took the 11 remaining jurors and the alternate to the jury deliberation room. The deputy who took the jury that morning was a substitute, so he was unaware that one of the jurors was an alternate. Consequently, the 11 original jurors and the alt...