Respondents themselves requested broadening evidence across grouped cases

Evidence

There was originally some grumbling about this procedure but at the end of the eastern trial the respondents moved to include testimony concerning the Ohio group of cases in the record to be considered by the Commission. — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process, 437

Categorization

• QUESTION: Why would defendants who grumbled about grouped trials later move to include Ohio testimony — did they believe the broader record favored their defense?
• XREF: connects to: Agency grouped all related industry cases into pooled multi-defendant trials — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process: Basic Problems in…, 426; Converging multiple research methods strengthens confidence in a finding

Broader Connections

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