Topic: a judge, unlike a juror, is uniquely suited by training, ex… · Go Syfert
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2 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 18 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Eckhart v. Commonwealth.

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1 Eckhart v. Commonwealth Anchor
va · 1981
green “a judge, unlike a juror, is uniquely suited by training, experience and judicial discipline to disregard potentially prejudicial comments and to separate, during the mental process of adjudication, the admissible from the inadmissible, even though he has heard both.” 15
2 Cole v. Commonwealth
vactapp · 1993
green “this presumption will control in the absence of clear evidence to the contrary.” 3

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