Keith v. Norris’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 2 state decisions

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1. “[ 2] We take up next, on its merits, the question of whether the trial judge ruled correctly, when on defendant’s motion for a new trial, he undertook to correct what he concluded had been an error, and granted defendant’s motion for a directed verdict. The fact that the trial judge was enough doubtful about the matter to overrule the motion for directed verdict indicates to some extent, at least, that reasonable minds might differ as to whether or not such motion should be granted, and the subsequent fact that the jury to whom the case was submitted did in fact disagree, clearly indicates that reasonable minds did disagree.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Harris v. Buckspan