Taylor & Courts

[amorentz]

Originally Posted by warriorzpath

So let me kind of get a handle on this, a case only gets dismissed on technicalities that find evidence/witnesses inadmissible (looking at it from the judge's eyes, probably to the point where they have no evidence/witnesses) . Or only if there are technicalities of wrong doing on the part of the prosecution that appear to be intentional.

And it has nothing to do with the merit of the case on either side ?

Exactly, a judge could only dismiss a case if it was found that there was insufficient evidence to even mount a case at all (or in a civil case, failed to sufficiently state a claim on which relief can be granted).

I would imagine that in a really egregious case of a prosecutor hiding witnesses or information the judge could dismiss the case on a due process basis, but I think that would have to be REALLY bad.