What is the legal test for the sufficiency of circumstantial evidence in a sexual assault case?
"New York", United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Heatley, 999 N.Y.S.2d 798 (Table) (N.Y. Crim. Ct. 2014):
The legal standard for trial sufficiency in any circumstantial case is well known: A jury, faced with a case in which the proof of a particular charge, or element thereof, consists entirely of circumstantial evidence, must exclude to a moral certainty every other reasonable hypothesis. People v. Reed, 22 NY3d 530, 534, 6 N.E.3d 1108, 1111, 983 N.Y.S.2d 752, 755 (2014) (citations and internal quotation marks omitted).
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