Opinion ID: 1834520
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 7

Heading: Disposition Request

Text: Bradley urges that the evidence is insufficient to support the habeas corpus court's rulings. In regard to the disposition request question, the habeas corpus court specifically noted it was not persuaded that Bradley made such a request, thus finding that Bradley did not make the request he claims to have made. Having resolved in part III that in cases such as this, fact issues are to be reviewed as in actions at law, we recall that in determining the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain a verdict in a civil case, an appellate court considers the evidence most favorably to the successful party and resolves evidentiary conflicts in favor of such party, who is entitled to every reasonable inference deducible from the evidence. Petska v. Olson Gravel, Inc., 243 Neb. 568, 500 N.W.2d 828 (1993). In such a review, an appellate court does not reweigh the evidence, but considers the evidence in a light most favorable to the successful party and resolves evidentiary conflicts in favor of that party, who is entitled to every reasonable inference deducible from the facts. Peterson v. Kellner, 245 Neb. 515, 513 N.W.2d 517 (1994). When evidence is in conflict, as it is here, an appellate court may consider and give weight to the fact that the trial court observed the witnesses and accepted one version of the facts rather than another. In re Interest of L.J., M.J., and K.J., 238 Neb. 712, 472 N.W.2d 205 (1991). It is significant that the disposition request form does not appear in any file in which one would expect it to be, and while there was some testimony that Bradley discussed this form with counsel around the time of the criminal trial, there is no testimony by anyone other than Bradley that the form ever existed. Under that state of the record, we cannot say the habeas corpus court's finding that Bradley did not make the disposition request he claims to have made is clearly erroneous. Once it is found that Bradley made no request, it necessarily follows that none of the expediting steps of § 29-3803 were put in operation.