Legal Opinion
United States v. Ruben Vargas-Ocampo
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 26, 2014No. 11-41363PublishedCited by 111 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judge, joined by STEWART, Chief Judge, and JOLLY, DAVIS, SMITH, CLEMENT, OWEN, SOUTHWICK and HIGGINSON, Circuit Judges:
The court voted to rehear this case en banc on the question whether, when examining the sufficiency of evidence supporting a criminal conviction, this court should no longer refer to the “equipoise rule.” 1 According to appellant, the “equi poise rule” states that the court “must reverse a conviction if the evidence construed in favor of the verdict ‘gives equal or nearly equal circumstantial support to a theory of guilt and a theory of innocence of…
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