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Reinterpreting The Role Of Special Trial Judges Through Standards Of Review, Christopher M. Pietruszkiewicz
Reinterpreting The Role Of Special Trial Judges Through Standards Of Review, Christopher M. Pietruszkiewicz
Christopher M. Pietruszkiewicz
Standards of review define the scope of power between judicial actors by dictating the level of discretion given to an original trier of fact. In the articulation of a standard of review, language is an insufficient source for defining a standard because of the inability of specific terminology to produce objective certainty. It is because words are not susceptible to objective certainty that the language used in defining a standard of review could be considered irrelevant and indistinguishable.
While the words may be indistinguishable, it is the uniformity of terms that promotes consistency in application. It may be impossible to …