State v. Holbrook

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a jury can choose which aspects of a witness’s testimony to accept
• relying on the jury’s power of lenity to rationalize jury’s conviction for possessing heroin with the intent to sell while acquitting him for selling heroin
• noting that the jury is entitled to reject opinion evidence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1978-05-26· cited 37×
• State v. Haglund
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1978-06-16· cited 34×
• State v. Juelfs
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1978-06-23· cited 22×
• State v. Hooks
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2008-07-01· cited 7×

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Madison
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1968-08-09· cited 19×
• State v. Morris
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1921-05-06· cited 17×
• State v. Richmond
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1974-02-01· cited 12×
• State v. Barness
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1972-08-04· cited 3×