617 So. 2d 272 - Moore v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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1. “The decision whether to grant a motion for new trial on grounds that the jury verdict is against the overwhelming weight of the evidence is committed to the sound discretion of the trial judge in the first instance. Crenshaw v. State, 520 So.2d 131, 135 (Miss.1988). The standard is whether the verdict is so contrary to the overwhelming weight of the evidence that to allow the verdict to stand would be to sanction an unconscionable injustice.”

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

2. “Temporal proximity does not generate a judicial union of separate and distinct criminal acts, nor does the presence of a common nucleus of operative facts.”

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