209 W. Va. 25 - State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Weintraub · Gemelli v. Pennsylvania · 194 W. Va. 657 - State v. Guthrie · 196 W. Va. 294 - State v. LaRock · 173 W. Va. 335 - Orr v. Crowder
Most-quoted passages
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“When a criminal defendant undertakes a sufficiency challenge, all the evidence, direct and circumstantial, must be viewed from the prosecutor's coign of vantage, and the viewer must accept all reasonable inferences from it that are consistent with the verdict. This rule requires the trial court judge to resolve all evi-dentiary conflicts and credibility questions in the prosecution's favor; moreover, as among competing inferences of which two or more are plausible, the judge must choose the inference that best fits the prosecution’s theory of guilt.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The function of an appellate court when reviewing the sufficiency of the evidence to support a criminal conviction is to examine the evidence admitted at trial to determine whether such evidence, if believed, is sufficient to convince a reasonable person of the defendant's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Thus, the relevant inquiry is whether, after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime proved beyond a reasonable doubt."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n a criminal prosecution, [that] the State is required to prove beyond a reasonable doubt every material element of the crime with which the defendant is charged....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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