Court Opinion

ID: 9658218
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 20:51:45.795219+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:13:52.981706
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Hastings, J.,
dissenting.
As stated in the majority opinion, although we review a decision in a habeas corpus case involving custody of a child de novo on the record, we will give great weight to the findings of the trial court where the evidence is in irreconcilable conflict. Gray v. Maxwell, 206 Neb. 385, 293 N.W.2d 90 (1980). In my view, we have failed to accord that consideration to the district court in this instance.
The record fully supports the decision of the trial court. However, by this decision we have permitted the credibility and the integrity of the judicial process to become suspect by the second-thought, self-serving statements of parties to the action. I would affirm the judgment of the district court.
I am authorized to state that Boslaugh, J., and Colwell, D. J., Retired, join in this dissent.