Supreme Court of New Jersey· 6/21/2017

State v. S.S.

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229 N.J. 360
162 A.3d 1058
2017 WL 2665134
2017 N.J. LEXIS 682

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holding that an appellate court is simply not as experienced nor as capable as the trial court at making credibility assessments or factual findings
concluding that a trial court's fact-finding based solely on a video recording is disturbed only \when factual findings are so clearly mistaken-so wide of the mark-that the interests of justice demand intervention\
instructing that appellate courts should not rely on video footage to overturn facts determined in the trial court unless the footage \clearly\ contradicts those A-3600-22 5 findings
holding that \[w]hen more than one reasonable inference can be drawn from the review of\ documentary evidence, \then the one accepted by a trial court cannot be unreasonable\ and \the mere substitution of an appellate court's judgment for that of the trial court's advances no greater good.\
holding \that a standard of deference to a trial court's factfindings . . . best advances the interests of justice in a judicial system that assigns different roles to trial courts and appellate courts\
holding \that a standard of deference to a trial court's factfindings . . . best advances the interests of justice in a judicial system that assigns different roles to trial courts and appellate courts\

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Judges: Albin, Fernandez, Lavecchia, Patterson, Rabner, Solomon, Timpone, Vina

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