282 F. Supp. 52 - Thomas v. Young’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate ·

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1. ““Police brutality is not easily provable. However, this court cannot enter a money judgment in favor of the plaintiffs unless a preponderance of the evidence shows that the plaintiffs are entitled- to that recovery. The plaintiffs have apparently left their case resting on a hope that this court would fill in the evidentiary gaps with the necessary inferences. However, the law is that if testimony leads as reasonably to one hypothesis as to another, it tends to establish neither. Galloway v. United States, 130 F.2d 467 (9th Cir. 1942), 319 U.S. 372 , 63 S.Ct. 1077 , 87 L.Ed. 1458 (1943). “Inferences may be drawn only where there are proven facts in evidence upon which the inferences can be soundly based. A case should never be grounded upon possibilities, since to adopt one possibility over another amounts to mere speculation, guess, or conjecture as to what might have happened. * * *””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Walyd ex rel. Walyd v. Kane