Darcella Reed v. Commonwealth of Virginia

How courts have described this case

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• requiring appellate courts to defer “not only to [the jury’s] findings of fact, but also to any reasonable and justified inferences the fact-finder may have drawn from the facts proved” (quoting Sullivan v. Commonwealth, 280 Va. 672, 676 (2010))
• requiring appellate courts to defer “not only to [the jury’s] findings of fact, but also to any reasonable and justified inferences the fact-finder may have drawn from the facts proved” (quoting Sullivan v. Commonwealth, 280 Va. 672, 676 (2010))
• first quoting Ridley v. Commonwealth, 219 Va. 834, 836 (1979); then quoting Norman v. Commonwealth, 2 Va. App. 518, 519 (1986)
• implicitly holding that a statutory reference to “prima facie evidence” establishes a “permissive inference”

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