Can a federal court overturn a jury's verdict on the ground of insufficient evidence?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from McCoy v. Soto, Case No. 1:15-cv-01578-LJO-EPG-HC (E.D. Cal. 2018):
the jury's verdict on the ground of insufficient evidence only if no rational trier of fact could have agreed with the jury." Cavazos v. Smith, 556 U.S. 1, 2 (2011). Moreover, when AEDPA applies, "a federal court may not overturn a state court decision rejecting a sufficiency of the evidence challenge simply because the federal court disagrees with the state court. The federal court instead may do so only if the state court decision was 'objectively unreasonable.'" Id.
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