Fort Worth Judge Testifies She Doesn’t Know How Jury Charge Got Messed Up in American Airlines Sex-Assault Case

FORT WORTH — A state district judge testified Friday that she doesn’t know how the wrong jury charge got delivered to jurors in a $26 million lawsuit against American Airlines over the sexual assault of a flight attendant in 2018.

Nor, the judge testified, does she know what happened to the correct jury form after she read it in open court, gave copies to the 12 jurors and the lawyers for both sides, signed the original and instructed a staff member to take it to the jury room when the jurors began their deliberations May 9, so they’d have it to complete the part containing the verdict form if and when they reached their decision.