Jackson v. Virginia, No. 78-5283 (U.S. Supreme Court) (443 U.S. 307; 99 S.Ct. 2781) (June 28, 1979) (Justice Stewart)
This case is considered by some commentators to be the Supreme Court's governing precedent for sufficiency of evidence claims. Here, the Court stated: "This is the first of our cases to expressly consider the question whether the due process standard recognized in Winship [In re Winship, 397 U.S. 358 (1970)] ...
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