United States Supreme Court

In a case in which a man was convicted as an accomplice and co-conspirator in a murder and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit granted him habeas corpus relief on the ground that the evidence at trial was insufficient to support his conviction, judgment is reversed, where: 1) the decision of the state court of last review, which did not think that the jury's finding was so insupportable as to fall below the threshold of bare rationality, was entitled to considerable deference under AEDPA; and 2) the evidence at trial was not nearly sparse enough to sustain a due process challenge under Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307 (1979).

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• Decided 05/29/2012
• Published 05/29/2012

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• United States Supreme Court

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