Court Opinion

ID: 9846765
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 03:48:06.708258+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:19:48.243178
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Weltner, Justice,
concurring specially.
The only principles necessary to resolve the issues presented by this case are those set out in the First Division of the opinion, specifically, “a new trial will not be granted if the only effect of the evidence will be to impeach the credit of the witness” and “a post-trial declaration by a State’s witness that his former testimony was false is not ground for a new trial.”
As Drake’s contentions clearly fall within one or both of these principles, the Second and Third Divisions of the majority opinion should fall to the venerable but valid precept known as “Occam’s Razor” (essentia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem), standing for the proposition that matters must not be multiplied *898beyond necessity.
I am authorized to state that Justice Smith joins in this concurrence.