Alt v. Lalone’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. ““ Under our statutes, a justice cannot grant a new trial, and has no power to inquire into what takes place outside of his knowledge. If nothing is returned on his knowledge which would affect a judgment prejudicially, it cannot be reversed on certiorari. The fact that he may have heard of something which he has no means of searching out, can have no more importance than if any one else reported similar matters. Under the settled practice in this State, a justice's return of what he knows officially must determine the result of a certiorari. There is no authority to go beyond this.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Etter