The following excerpt is from Rogers v. Muniz, No. 2:15-cv-01805-JKS (E.D. Cal. 2016):
clear that it is the responsibility of the jurynot the courtto decide what conclusions should be drawn from evidence admitted at trial." Id. at 3-4. Under Cavazos, "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. at 4 (quoting Renico v. Lett, 559 U.S. 766, 773 (2010)).
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