Is sufficient to convict the petitioner of first degree murder?

The district court held that the evidence was sufficient to support a first degree murder conviction. When reviewing the sufficiency of the evidence to support a conviction, the salient question is "whether, after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt." Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307, 319 (1979). This is a high standard and the petitioner does not meet it in this case. It is not enough that we might have reached a different result ourselves or that, as judges, we may have reasonable doubt. Although the evidence was almost entirely circumstantial and relatively weak, it was sufficient to support the conviction.