What is the test for determining whether a jury's verdict was based on the evidence of sexual assault?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Harris, 37 Cal.Rptr.2d 200, 886 P.2d 1193, 9 Cal.4th 407 (Cal. 1994):
Put differently, the first question is "whether the jury's verdict did rest on that evidence as well as on the presumptio[n]...." (Yates v. Evatt, supra, 500 U.S. at p. 407, 111 S.Ct. at p. 1895.)
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