Commonwealth v. Hawkesworth

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “the standard for appellate review of facts in both civil and criminal cases is identical”
• experts’ opinions are not binding on the trier of fact, who may accept or reject them in whole or in part
• reasons for requiring independent fact finding by a judge rather than verbatim adoption of one party’s proposed findings

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).