Brooks v. Brooks’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 state decisions

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1. ““This Court’s review of [a] case is significantly hampered by the district court’s failure to make specific, detailed findings on the relevant issues and law to be applied and its failure to expressly delineate the basis for its decision. ‘A reviewing court needs to know the reasons for the trial court’s decision before it can intelligently rule on the issues, and if the trial court does not provide an adequate explanation of the evidentiary and legal basis for its decision we are left to merely speculate whether the court properly applied the law.’ The lack of findings in the district court’s order does little to explain the rationale for the court’s ulti- ■ mate determination that the motion ... should be denied.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Horning