Bryant v. Corley’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “In other words, that a litigant has made inconsistent statements on a critical issue of fact does not always and inexorably destroy his case. It depends to some extent on what the fact in issue is and what the rest of the evidence indicates. In the final analysis, the question adds up to whether upon the whole case, including but not limited to his self-stultification, a verdict in his favor would be unconscionable. The same is true when the witness whose testimony is under consideration does not happen to be one of the litigating parties.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Temple v. Helton