Can a court order a new trial on the grounds of insufficiency of the evidence?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Grady v. Moses, D072429 (Cal. App. 2018):
The court's new trial order in this case, notwithstanding its failure to use statutory language, makes reasonably clear that the ground on which it was granting a new trial was insufficiency of the evidence. (Accord, Jones v. Citrus Motors Ontario, Inc. (1973) 8 Cal.3d 706, 709-710 [ground for new trial is adequately specified if the intention of the court is clear, even if the order lacks statutory language].) However, in ruling that the
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