Hope v. Cartledge’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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1. “the crucial issue at trial was witness credibility, and the parties presented the jury with two different and irreconcilable factual scenarios. The State's version directly placed [the defendant] at the scene of the crime and implicated him in the robbery. [The defendant's] version directly placed him at home and absolved him of any involvement in the robbery. The parties' closing arguments discussed the witnesses' credibility, and the trial court specifically instructed the jury that it must judge credibility. The guilty verdict necessarily establishes that the jury found the State's witnesses to be credible and believed the State's version of events. We do not believe that the inclusion of an alibi instruction would have changed the jury's credibility determination or the ultimate verdict .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Jones