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2 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 6 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 State v. Patch.

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1 State v. Patch Anchor
minn · 1983
green “a jury has the power to acquit irrationally in the teeth of overwhelming evidence of guilt,” 3
2 State v. Adams
minn · 1980
green “proof of the elements which differentiate the two crimes must be sufficiently in dispute so that a jury” 3

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