Yorke v. State

How courts have described this case

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• holding that newly discovered evidence warrants a new trial under Rule 4-331(c) when it creates a “substantial or significant possibility” that “verdict of the trier of fact would have been affected”
• denial of a new trial motion is reviewable under an abuse of discretion standard
• the threshold for relief in Maryland is whether there is “a substantial or significant possibility that the verdict of the trier of fact would have been affected”
• the threshold for relief in Maryland is whether there is “a substantial or significant possibility that the verdict of the trier of fact would have been affected”
• “[T]he judge found that the newly discovered evidence, weighed with the evidence before the jury at the trial on the merits, did not affect the verdict to the extent that the outcome of the trial would be different.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).