206 N.C. App. 629 - State v. Register’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “When a defendant moves to dismiss, “[o]nly evidence favorable to the State is considered and contradictions, even in the State’s evidence, are for the jury and do not warrant a granting of the motion. When so considered, the motion should be denied when there is substantial evidence, direct, circumstantial or both from which the jury could find that the offense charged was committed and that the defendant perpetrated the offense ....””

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