Barbato v. Epstein

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• using their “independent” judgments, trial justices can “accept some or all of the evidence as having probative force,” or they can reject some of the testimony “because it is impeached or contradicted” or because other circumstances make it inherently improbable
• “[The trial justice’s] duty is to consider in the exercise of his independent judgment all of the material evidence in the case in the light of his charge to the jury and to pass on its weight and the credibility of the witnesses.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).