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4 canonical passages across 4 cases, quoted by 42 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 People v. Coleman.

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1 People v. Coleman Anchor
ill · 2013
green “probability, not certainty, is the key as the trial court in effect predicts what another jury would likely do, considering all the evidence, both new and old, together.” 19
2 People v. Morgan
ill · 2004
green “clearly evident, plain, and indisputable.” 14
3 People v. Washington
ill · 1996
green “a claim of newly discovered evidence showing a defendant to be actually innocent of the crime for which he was convicted is cognizable as a matter of due process.” 6
4 People v. Whirl
illappct · 2015
green “but whether the outcome of the suppression hearing likely would have differed if the officer who denied harming the defendant had been subject to impeachment based on evidence revealing a pattern of abusive tactics employed by that officer in the interrogation of other suspects.” 3

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