What is sufficient evidence to have been sufficient evidence for a jury to find that defendant intentionally poisoned a patient?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Jennings, 114 Cal.Rptr.3d 133, 237 P.3d 474, 50 Cal.4th 616 (Cal. 2010):
was sufficient evidence for a reasonably jury to have found that defendant had full knowledge that his conduct endangered the life of decedent, but that he nevertheless deliberately administered the poison with conscious disregard for
[237 P.3d 494]
that life. [Citation.] ( People v. Blair (2005) 36 Cal.4th 686, 745, 31 Cal.Rptr.3d 485, 115 P.3d 1145.)
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