Woodard v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
October 2015
most recently cited
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on McClain v. State · 460 So. 2d 778 - May v. State · Kelly v. State · 585 So. 2d 693 - Veal v. State · 542 So. 2d 222 - Blanks v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“The decision of whether or not to grant a motion for a new trial rests in the sound discretion of the trial judge and should only be granted when the judge is certain that the verdict is so contrary to the overwhelming weight of the evidence that failure to grant the motion would result in an unconscionable injustice. In making the determination of whether a verdict is against the overwhelming weight of the evidence, this Court must view all evidence in the light most consistent with the jury verdict, and we should not overturn the verdict unless we find that the lower court abused its discretion when it denied the motion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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