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rational connection test

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United States Supreme Court

A legislative determination making proof of one fact evidence of the ultimate fact on which guilt is predicated 'would not be sustained if there was no rational connection between the fact proved and the ultimate fact presumed, if the inference of the one from proof of the other is arbitrary because of lack of connection between the two in common experience.

Defined by the Supreme Court in - United States v. Romano, 382 U.S. 136 (1965).