What is the test for overturning a jury's verdict?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from People v. Velasquez, B282428 (Cal. App. 2018):

"When a jury's verdict is attacked on the ground that there is no substantial evidence to sustain it, the power of an appellate court begins and ends with the determination as to whether, on the entire record, there is any substantial evidence, contradicted or uncontradicted, which will support it, and when two or more inferences can reasonably be deduced from the facts, a reviewing court is without power to substitute its deductions for those of the jury. It is of no consequence that the jury believing other evidence, or drawing different inferences, might have reached a contrary conclusion." (People v. Brown (1984) 150 Cal.App.3d 968, 970.) Reversal under this standard of review "is unwarranted unless it appears 'that upon no hypothesis

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