Court Opinion

ID: 9477605
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 06:27:08.76876+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:45:57.573662
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ENGEL, Chief Judge,
dissenting.
The question here of the sufficiency of the record as a whole, under the standards of Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 807, 99 S.Ct. 2781, 61 L.Ed.2d 560 (1979), is extremely close. The parties can know with confidence that each judge on this panel has examined the entire record, thus carrying out the duties imposed under Jackson. I simply reach a different conclusion on the legal question whether any rational jury could have found the elements of Kentucky’s crime of murder to have been established beyond a reasonable doubt and upon the evidence which was presented to the Kentucky jury here, when viewed, with the inferences, in the light most favorable to the prosecution.
I therefore respectfully dissent.