185 Md. App. 559 - Burlas v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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20 state decisions

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1. “An assessment of the legal sufficiency of the evidence is not an evidentiary issue but a substantive issue, with respect to which an appellate court makes its own independent judgment, as a matter of law. This is an area wherein the reviewing court is not at all deferential to the trial court. It makes the same determination on the same basis as does the trial court. In assessing legal sufficiency, we will look only at that which was formally received in evidence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 198 Md. App. 551 - Stephens v. State

2. “cease to be responsible for his otherwise criminal conduct because there were other conditions which contributed to the same result.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Thomas