What is the legal test for failing to sustain a jury's verdict in a sexual assault case?

MultiRegion, United States of America

The following excerpt is from U.S. v. Badalamenti, 794 F.2d 821 (2nd Cir. 1986):

All appellants maintain that the evidence adduced against them at trial was insufficient to sustain the jury's verdict. However, in evaluating this claim, we must view the evidence in the light most favorable to the government and construe all possible inferences in its favor, see, e.g., United States v. Martino, 759 F.2d 998, 1002 (2d Cir.1985). If "any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime," the conviction must stand. Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307, 319, 99 S.Ct. 2781, 2786, 61 L.Ed.2d 560 (1979) (emphasis in original). Viewed according to this standard, we find that there was sufficient evidence to support the convictions of all three appellants.

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