Case Name: METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY, Petitioner, v. Michael McKENZIE, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Keyana McKenzie, Deceased, Respondent
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1990-01-02
Citations: 555 So. 2d 885
Docket Number: No. 89-2331
Parties: METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY, Petitioner, v. Michael McKENZIE, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Keyana McKenzie, Deceased, Respondent.
Judges: Before BARKDULL, FERGUSON and JORGENSON, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 555
Pages: 885–886

Head Matter:
METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY, Petitioner, v. Michael McKENZIE, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Keyana McKenzie, Deceased, Respondent.
No. 89-2331.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
Jan. 2, 1990.
Robert A. Ginsburg, County Atty., and Evan Grob and Eric K. Gressman, Asst. County Atty., for petitioner.
Philip M. Gerson, Miami, for respondent.
Before BARKDULL, FERGUSON and JORGENSON, JJ.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
By this petition for writ of certiorari we quash a post-trial order permitting inter view of jurors ostensibly because the jury discriminated against the plaintiffs because of their foreign citizenship. We hold that any such discrimination is inherent in the verdict. We are therefore controlled by the principles and holding announced in Maler v. Baptist Hospital of Miami, Inc., (Fla. 3d DCA 1989), Case No. 89-756, 3rd DCA opinion released December 26, 1989. Therefore the order under review was a departure from the essential requirements of the law; the alleged misconduct not being extrinsic to the verdict. The trial court's order directing post trial interview of the jurors, be and the same is hereby quashed.