Saez v. Enterprise Leasing Co.

How courts have described this case

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• because consciousness of guilt instruction allowed permissive inference, claim that instruction unconstitutionally diluted state’s burden of proof had no merit
• because consciousness of guilt instruction allowed permissive inference, it did not implicate constitutional right and, thus, claim that instruction unconstitutionally diluted state’s burden of proof had no merit
• unpreserved insufficiency of evidence claims implicate due process rights and are reviewable on appeal
• “ ‘[a] reasonable doubt is a doubt for which a valid reason can be assigned’ and ‘is such a doubt as in serious affairs which concern yourselves you would . . . heed’ ”
• ‘a doubt for which a valid reason can be assigned’
• reasonable doubt is doubt for which valid reason can be assigned

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).