California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Grimes, 182 Cal.Rptr.3d 50, 340 P.3d 293, 60 Cal.4th 729 (Cal. 2015):
As in People v. Solomon, the trial court in the present case fully instructed the jury on the presumption of innocence, the requirement of proof beyond a reasonable doubt, and to consider the instructions as a whole. We see no reasonable likelihood that because the jury was given some additional, more detailed, direction about how to apply the reasonable doubt standard to circumstantial evidence, but was not given such direction regarding direct evidence, the jury would have concluded that the reasonable doubt standard did not fully apply to proof by direct evidence.
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