How would a jury make identification of one robber from his later possession of a .38?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from U.S. v. Robinson, 544 F.2d 611 (2nd Cir. 1976):
To make the identification of appellant as one robber from his later possession of a .38, the jury would have had to draw two quite weak inferences, with the second being dependent on the first and with neither having much basis in the evidence presented at trial. While this court has "reject(ed) as untenable the often urged claim that an inference may not be grounded on an inference," United States v. Ravich, supra, 421 F.2d at 1204 n.10, it has at the same time recognized that
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