California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Martinez, 10 Cal.App.5th 686, 216 Cal.Rptr.3d 814 (Cal. App. 2017):
"When a jury's finding of fact is attacked on the ground that there is not any substantial evidence to sustain it, the power of an appellate court begins and ends with the determination as to whether, on the entire record, there is any substantial evidence, contradicted or uncontradicted, which will support the finding of fact, and when two or more inferences can reasonably be deduced from the facts, a reviewing court is without power to substitute its deductions for those of the jury. It is of no consequence that the jury, believing other evidence or drawing other inferences, might have come to a contrary conclusion." (People v. Mendonsa (1982) 137 Cal.App.3d 888, 891, 187 Cal.Rptr. 363, citing People v. Johnson (1980) 26 Cal.3d 557, 576577, 162 Cal.Rptr. 431, 606 P.2d 738.)
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