938 So. 2d 1147 - State v. Hanson’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “Under Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307 , 99 S.Ct. 2781 , 61 L.Ed.2d 560 (1979), the proper standard of appellate review for a sufficiency of evidence claim 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 proven beyond a reasonable doubt. State v. Bellamy, 599 So.2d 326 (La.App. 2d Cir.), writ denied, 605 So.2d 1089 (La.1992).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 981 So. 2d 276 - State v. Leyva-Martinez

2. “(1) When the victim resists the act to the utmost, but whose resistance is overcome by force. (2) When the victim is prevented from resisting the act by threats of great and immediate bodily harm, accompanied by apparent power of execution.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 981 So. 2d 276 - State v. Leyva-Martinez

3. “A victim need not suffer physical harm to constitute the high degree of force necessary to support a conviction of aggravated rape.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 981 So. 2d 276 - State v. Leyva-Martinez