State v. Nitcher

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding the district court applied the incorrect legal standard because the court did not specifically articulate what standard it applied and referenced motions that called for the sufficiency-of-the-evidence standard
• noting that the jury is free to reject certain evidence and credit other evidence
• noting trial counsel was not ineffective for failing to raise an issue with no merit
• remanding for application of the weight-of- the-evidence standard to a motion for a new trial
• affirming convictions but remanding case to the district court to rule on motion for new trial under the correct weight-of- the-evidence standard
• reversing where the district court did not indicate it weighed the evidence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).