Sheridan v. Desmond, 45 Conn. App. 686 (1997)

Citation: Sheridan v. Desmond, 45 Conn. App. 686 (1997)
Parent Document: Sheridan v. Desmond, 45 Conn. App. 686 (1997)
Jurisdiction: Connecticut (state)
Effective Date: 1997-07-15
Original Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/7908700/sheridan-v-desmond/ ↗

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The general verdict rale “rests on the sound policy of conservation of judicial resources, at both the appellate and trial levels. On the appellate level, the rule relieves an appellate court from the necessity of adjudicating claims of error that may not arise from the actual source of the jury verdict that is under appellate review. In a typical general verdict rule case, the record is silent regarding whether the jury verdict resulted from the issue that the appellant seeks to have adjudicated. . . . In the trial court, the rale relieves the judicial system from the necessity of affording a second trial if the *690result of the first trial potentially did not depend upon the trial errors claimed by the appellant. Thus, unless an appellant can provide a record to indicate that the result the appellant wishes to reverse derives from the trial errors claimed, rather than from the other, independent issues at trial, there is no reason to spend the judicial resources to provide a second trial.” (Citation omitted.) Curry v. Burns, supra, 225 Conn. 790.

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