King v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
August 2018
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 895 So. 2d 836 - Bush v. State · Holly v. State · Sudduth v. State · 989 So. 2d 320 - Chamberlin v. State · 566 So. 2d 680 - Welch v. State
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The [c]ourt instructs the [j]ury that three witnesses called by the [SJtate, Michael Satterfield, Tevin Oglen, and Bobby Bluitt[ ] Jr.[,] are accomplices to the commission of the same crimes with which Corey Lathan is charged in this case. The court has already instructed you that you, as jurors, are the sole judges of the weight and credibility to be assigned to the testimony and supporting evidence of each witness who has testified in this case. However, since Michael Satterfield, Tevin Oglen, and Bobby Bluittf ] Jr. are accomplices, any testimony of either of them, which you find to be uncorroborated by other evidence^] should be viewed with great caution and suspicion if you find such uncorroborated testimony to be unreasonable, self-contradictory, or substantially impeached.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“reviews a trial court’s denial of a motion for a new trial under an abuse-of-discretion standard.... “When reviewing a denial of a motion for a new trial based on an objection to the weight of the evidence, we will only disturb a verdict when it is so contrary to the overwhelming weight of the evidence that to allow it to stand would sanction an unconscionable injustice.” Bush v. State, 895 So.2d 836, 844 (Miss.2005). Further, when there is a motion for a new trial, “the court sits as a thirteenth juror. The motion, however, is addressed to the discretion of the court, which should be exercised with caution, and the power to grant a new trial should be invoked only in exceptional cases in which the evidence preponderates heavily against the verdict.” Id.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A photograph has a meaningful evidentiary purpose when it: (1) aids in describing the circumstances of the killing; (2) describes the location of the body or cause of death; or (3) supplements or clarifies witness testimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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