Legal Opinion
John Daniel Blue v. Maria Deguadalupe Lopez
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided August 28, 2018No. 17-11742PublishedCited by 46 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROSENBAUM, Circuit Judge:
*1354 We can't tell what time it is by measuring yards. We can't know how much something weighs by measuring lightyears. We can't see how long a field is by measuring degrees of heat. And we can't quantify rainfall by measuring it on the Richter magnitude scale. That's because in all of these cases, the measuring device simply is not designed to gauge the thing we are trying to measure.
Here, we must decide whether a legal measuring device-the standard for denying a motion for directed verdict in a Georgia criminal trial-can accurately gauge whether another legal…
2Cases cited15 opinions
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