Potential multimillion dollar mesh trial goes to jury

A jury of three women and nine men began deliberating late Thursday in a transvaginal mesh trial brought by a Bakersfield woman and her husband, a case that has garnered national attention.

Coleen Perry, 52, of Bakersfield, filed a lawsuit against New Brunswick, N.J.-based Johnson & Johnson and its wholly owned subsidiary, Ethicon Inc., over complications from a medical device implanted in her in March 2011 to treat stress-induced incont