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- SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
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- No. 91-542
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- ELLIS B. WRIGHT, Jr., WARDEN and MARY SUE
- TERRY, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF VIRGINIA,
- PETITIONERS v. FRANK ROBERT WEST, Jr.
- on writ of certiorari to the united states court of
- appeals for the fourth circuit
- [June 19, 1992]
-
- Justice White, concurring in the judgment.
- Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U. S. 307 (1979), required the
- federal courts to deny the requested writ of habeas corpus
- if, under the Jackson standard, there was sufficient
- evidence to support West's conviction, which, as the Court
- amply demonstrates, see ante, at 16-18, there certainly
- was.
-