What is the test for a state court's resolution of an insufficiency of evidence claim?
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The following excerpt is from Grattan v. Sutton, Case No.: 3:17-cv-01523-GPC-PCL (S.D. Cal. 2018):
A state court's resolution of an insufficiency of evidence claim is evaluated under 28 U.S.C. 2254(d)(1), not 2254(d)(2). Emery v. Clark, 643 F.3d 1210, 1213-14 (9th Cir. 2011) ("When we undertake collateral review of a state court decision rejecting a
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