State v. Dorantes

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• recognizing that whether sentences are to be served concurrently or consecutively is primarily within the discretion of the trial court
• noting that an inference of guilt can be drawn from an attempt to evade arrest
• providing that “a criminal offense may be established exclusively by circumstantial evidence” and that the jury must decide what weight to give such evidence
• providing that the distinction between the appropriate standard and the “reasonable hypothesis” language has “rarely made a difference”
• holding that the constitutional guarantee of a right to trial by jury includes the “right to a complete and correct charge of the law, so that each issue of fact raised by the evidence will be submitted to the jury on proper instructions”
• stating that a criminal conviction may be based solely on circumstantial evidence and that the prosecution need not disprove alternative theories of guilt when relying on circumstantial evidence alone

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).