State v. Meeks’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “We do not intend to characterize the defendant's case for mental disease or defect as either strong or weak, but it is more than a scintilla. We might believe that the defendant's witnesses were of dubious veracity, or we might believe that their testimony was not plausible— or accepting their testimony as true, we might believe it does not show mental disease or defect excluding responsibility. But that is not our judgment to make. That is a judgment for the jury to make, and it was the trial court's duty to submit the issue to the jury upon proper instructions,....”

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