How have the courts interpreted the test for determining whether a jury has met the burden of proving beyond a reasonable doubt to convict an appellant of murder?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Yanaga, 2d Crim. No. B267571 (Cal. App. 2018):
We presume that the jury followed this instruction. (People v. Homick (2012) 55 Cal.4th 816, 851.) Thus, by convicting appellant of murder, the jury necessarily found that the People had met their burden of proving beyond a reasonable doubt that
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