California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Lam Thanh Nguyen, 191 Cal.Rptr.3d 182, 354 P.3d 90, 61 Cal.4th 1015 (Cal. 2015):
light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt].) But our strong presumption in favor of upholding factual determinations where reasonably possible in no way vitiates our responsibility to ensure that evidence sustaining a conviction is credible and of solid value, (People v. Hill (1998) 17 Cal.4th 800, 848, 72 Cal.Rptr.2d 656, 952 P.2d 673 ), and that inferences supporting a conviction are of such substantiality that a reasonable trier of fact could determine beyond a reasonable doubt that the
[354 P.3d 148]
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