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State v. Saunders

Citations

  • 164 N.H. 342
  • 55 A.3d 1014

How courts have described this case

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

  • stating that we defer to trial court’s credibility determinations
  • “[I]n a criminal case that includes direct evidence, trial courts should not include in instructions to the jury language indicating that the evidence need not exclude all rational conclusions other than guilt.”
  • “[T]he question is not whether the trial court failed to isolate and cure a particular ailing instruction, but rather whether the ailing instruction by itself so infected the entire trial that the resulting conviction violates due process” (citations omitted)

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Judges: Bassett, Conboy, Dalianis, Hlcks, Lynn

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