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· 12/19/1949

People ex rel. Metzger v. District Court

Citations

  • 121 Colo. 141
  • 215 P.2d 327
  • 1949 Colo. LEXIS 176

How courts have described this case

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

  • explaining that \jurors [are] entitled to draw reasonable inferences from the evidence based on their own common-sense understanding of the world\
  • explaining that “jurors [are] entitled to draw reasonable inferences from the evidence based on their own common-sense understanding of the world”
  • explaining that “jurors [are] entitled to draw reasonable inferences from the evidence based on their own common-sense understanding of the world”
  • noting that a jury is not required to leave its common sense at the door in resolving a case
  • jurors are permitted to consider \their own common-sense understanding of the world\ when drawing reasonable inferences from circumstantial evidence
  • “[B]ecause [the defendant] did not object to the trial court’s supplemental instructions, we review the instructions only for plain error.”

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Judges: Alter

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