United States v. Ruben Pulido

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that in reviewing a jury verdict for sufficiency of evidence, “we will not reweigh the evidence or judge the credibility of witnesses. That is the role of the jury, not an appellate court.” (citation omitted)
• testimony concerning murders “was brief and non-inflammatory in nature, reducing any risk that the jury’s emotion would be stirred by such evidence and ... be compelled toward irrationality”
• “[t]his court has persistently refused to adopt [a per se rule against admissibility of polygraphs], choosing rather to leave the decision on admissibility to the sound discretion of the district court” [internal quotation marks omitted]
• characteriz- ing the burden as a “nearly insurmountable hurdle”
• characterizing the burden as a “nearly insurmountable hurdle”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).