California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Cortez, B285262 (Cal. App. 2019):
determine whether the prosecution established guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. [Citation.] And if the circumstances reasonably justify the trier of fact's findings, the reviewing court's view that the circumstances might also reasonably be reconciled with a contrary finding does not warrant reversal of the judgment." (People v. Hubbard (2016) 63 Cal.4th 378, 392; see People v. Cravens (2012) 53 Cal.4th 500, 508 ["[t]he conviction shall stand 'unless it appears "that upon no hypothesis whatever is there sufficient substantial evidence to support [the conviction]"'"].)
2. Attempted Deliberate and Premeditated Murder
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