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SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
No.
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
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Justice
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.