Walther v. Department of Labor

How courts have described this case

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• trial court has firsthand impression of jury during proceeding and is in best position to evaluate whether jurors have been prejudiced by courtroom spectators’ outburst or conduct
• “[t]he state of mind which is characterized as guilty consciousness or consciousness of guilt is strong evidence that the person is indeed guilty” [internal quotation marks omitted]
• corroboration allows inference that “a statement which has been shown true in some respects is reasonably likely to be true in the remaining respects” [internal quotation marks omitted]
• ‘‘[expert’s] conclusion that the witness was not competent to testify was . . . based upon his clinical diagnosis of [the witness’] mental illness, although he acknowledged that her testimony, if inde- pendently corroborated, might be credible’’

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).