Case Title: State v. Paya

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State: vermont

Court: Vermont Supreme Court

Date: 1992-10-01T00:00:00Z

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State v. Paya  ENTRY ORDER SUPREME COURT DOCKET NO. 91-610 OCTOBER TERM, 1992 State of Vermont } APPEALED FROM: } } v. } District Court of Vermont, } Unit No. 2, Chittenden Circuit } Cynthia Paya } } DOCKET NO. 343-8-91CnCS In the above entitled cause the Clerk will enter: The presumption set forth in 23 V.S.A. { 1205(m) does not violate the due process clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth amendments to the United States Constitution because it is rebuttable, rather than irrebuttable, and because there is a rational connection between the fact proved and the ultimate fact presumed. State v. Pluta, ___ Vt. ___, ___, 600 A.2d 291, 293 (1991). Defendant's evidence at trial showed only that the presumption was theoretically rebuttable, not that it was rebutted in this case, id., or that it was irrational. Affirmed. BY THE COURT: _______________________________________ Frederic W. Allen, Chief Justice _______________________________________ Ernest W. Gibson III, Associate Justice _______________________________________ John A. Dooley, Associate Justice _______________________________________ James L. Morse, Associate Justice [x] Publish _______________________________________ [ ] Do Not Publish Denise R. Johnson, Associate Justice