46 Cited authorities

  1. Jackson v. Virginia

    443 U.S. 307 (1979)   Cited 77,383 times   16 Legal Analyses
    Holding that courts conducting review of the sufficiency of the evidence to support a criminal conviction should view the "evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution"
  2. Estelle v. McGuire

    502 U.S. 62 (1991)   Cited 19,874 times   9 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a federal habeas court may not reexamine state court determinations of state law questions
  3. Neder v. United States

    527 U.S. 1 (1999)   Cited 4,920 times   31 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the failure to submit an uncontested element of an offense to a jury may be harmless
  4. People v. Cole

    33 Cal.4th 1158 (Cal. 2004)   Cited 2,221 times
    Finding defendant's statements following an attack on his wife to be probative of an intent to torture
  5. People v. Osband

    13 Cal.4th 622 (Cal. 1996)   Cited 2,622 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Holding error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt because defendant received more than he was entitled to when the jury was instructed on the "specific intent" to commit the underlying felony of rape
  6. Hopper v. Evans

    456 U.S. 605 (1982)   Cited 730 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that Beck requires instructions on noncapital offenses only when the evidence would support a conviction on that charge
  7. The People v. McCoy

    25 Cal.4th 1111 (Cal. 2001)   Cited 1,100 times
    Recognizing that “[w]hen two or more persons commit a crime together, both may act in part as the actual perpetrator and in part as the aider and abettor of the other, who also acts in part as an actual perpetrator”
  8. People v. Hillhouse

    27 Cal.4th 469 (Cal. 2002)   Cited 1,054 times
    Finding no reasonable possibility of a different result at the penalty phase absent errors
  9. People v. Moye

    47 Cal.4th 537 (Cal. 2009)   Cited 706 times
    Finding failure to instruct on heat of passion voluntary manslaughter harmless because among other things, "[o]nce the jury rejected defendant's claims of reasonable and imperfect self-defense, there was little if any independent evidence remaining to support his further claim that he killed in the heat of passion . . . or acted rashly or impulsively while under its influence for reasons unrelated to his perceived need for self-defense."
  10. People v. Kelly

    1 Cal.4th 495 (Cal. 1992)   Cited 1,255 times
    Finding no abuse of discretion in exclusion of evidence that murder victims had alcohol or cocaine in their systems