Boyer v. Belleque, No. 10-35574 (9th Cir. 2011)
Annotate this CaseDefendant, an Oregon state prisoner, appealed the district court's denial of his 28 U.S.C. 2254 habeas corpus petition, arguing that the evidence presented was constitutionally insufficient for a rational jury to find him guilty of attempted aggravated murder beyond a reasonable doubt. The court held that its review of the evidence convinced the court that the prosecution presented evidence of specific intent to kill, as that element had been defined by Oregon state law and interpreted by the state appellate court. Accordingly, the state court's determination that there was sufficient evidence of defendant's intent to support his conviction was an objectively reasonable application of Jackson v. Virginia.
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