Sheriff, Washoe County v. Middleton

How courts have described this case

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• “The state is required only to show a hypothesis that death occurred by criminal agency; it is not required to show a hypothesis of a specific cause of death.”
• \The state is required only to show a hypothesis that death occurred by criminal agency; it is not required to show a hypothesis of a specific cause of death.\
• “[W]e now clarify that at the preliminary hearing stage, the state's burden with respect to the corpus delicti is the same as its burden to show probable cause. The state must present evidence supporting a ‘reasonable inference’ of death by criminal agency.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).