What is the standard of review for a jury to overturn a finding of reasonable doubt in a sexual assault case?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from People v. Tate, F076798 (Cal. App. 2020):

reasonable doubt." [Citation.]' [Citation.]" (People v. Tripp, supra, at p. 955, italics omitted.) "This standard of review . . . applies to circumstantial evidence. [Citation.] If the circumstances, plus all the logical inferences the jury might have drawn from them, reasonably justify the jury's findings, our opinion that the circumstances might also reasonably be reconciled with a contrary finding does not warrant a reversal of the judgment. [Citations.]" (Ibid.)

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