Robert Anthony Preston, Jr. v. Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections

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• recognizing that a petitioner raising a Jackson claim faces a high bar in 16 federal habeas due to the two layers of judicial deference
• recognizing that a petitioner raising a Jackson claim faces 34 a high bar in federal habeas due to the two layers of judicial deference
• holding that an applicant failed to exhaust a federal sufficiency of the evidence claim when his argument in the state appellate court was based on Florida’s circumstantial evidence standard
• holding that petitioner did not fairly present a federal sufficiency of the evidence claim where his direct appeal brief relied on state law and did not cite any provisions of federal law
• holding that federal sufficiency-of-the-evidence claim was not exhausted because petitioner “asserted in his [state appellate] brief that his conviction rested on insufficient evidence, without clarifying whether he intended to bring a federal or a state sufficiency of the evidence claim”
• explaining that we presume “that the jury resolved those conflicts in favor of the prosecution and against the defendant” (quotations omitted)

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