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Pilon v. Bordenkircher, 444 U.S. 1 (1979)
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General SummaryThis case is from a collection containing the full text of over 16,000 Supreme Court cases from 1793 to the present. The body of Supreme Court decisions are, effectively, the final interpretation of the Constitution. Only an amendment to the Constitution can permanently overturn an interpretation and this has happened only four times in American history.
Pilon v. Bordenkircher, 444 U.S. 1 (1979)
Pilon v. Bordenkircher No. 78-6932 Decided October 9, 1979 444 U.S. 1
ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES
COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT
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Held: The requirement under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment that a criminal conviction be based upon proof of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt can be effectuated only if a federal habeas corpus court, in assessing the sufficiency of the evidence to support a state court conviction, inquires
whether, after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.
Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307, 319. Thus, in the instant case, the District Court and the Court of Appeals which, prior to the decision in Jackson v. Virginia, supra, had denied habeas corpus relief to petitioner from his state court conviction, erred in applying the "no evidence" test that was held to be constitutionally inadequate in Jackson, and the case will be remanded to the District Court for reconsideration in the light of Jackson.
Certiorari granted; 593 F.2d 26, vacated and remanded.
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Harvard: U.S. Supreme Court, 'Syllabus' in Pilon v. Bordenkircher, 444 U.S. 1 (1979). cited in 1979, 444 U.S. 1. Original Sources, retrieved 24 November 2024, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=BIA7CXWLF9JRJPQ.
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