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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. Zayas.

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1 State v. Zayas Anchor
conn · 1985
green “expected to lay aside matters of common knowledge or their own observation and experience of the affairs of life, but, on the contrary, to apply them to the evidence or facts in hand, to the end that their action may be intelligent and their conclusions correct.” 3
2 State v. Maxwell
connappct · 1992
green “juries are not required to leave common sense at the courtroom door” 3

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