Bowen, Deborah’s Empirical Analysis

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25 state decisions

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1. “[A]fter a court of appeals has found the evidence insufficient to support an appellant’s conviction for a greater-in-elusive offense, in deciding whether to reform the judgment to reflect a conviction' for a lesser-included offense, that court must answer two questions: 1) in the course of convicting the appellant of the greater offense, must the jury have necessarily found every element necessary to convict the appellant for the lesser-included offense; and 2) conducting an evidentiary sufficiency analysis as though the appellant had been convicted of the lesser-included offense at trial, is there sufficient evidence to support a conviction for that offense? If the answer to either of these questions is no, the court of appeals is not authorized to reform the judgment. But if the answers to both are yes, the court is authorized — indeed required — to avoid the “unjust” result of an outright acquittal by reforming the judgment to reflect a conviction for the lesser-included offense.”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Laci Rena Wright v. State · Rabb, Richard Lee