CA · jury_instructions
CALCRIM No. 224
Circumstantial Evidence: Sufficiency of Evidence
Before you may rely on circumstantial evidence to conclude that a fact
necessary to find the defendant guilty has been proved, you must be
convinced that the People have proved each fact essential to that
conclusion beyond a reasonable doubt.
Also, before you may rely on circumstantial evidence to find the
defendant guilty, you must be convinced that the only reasonable
conclusion supported by the circumstantial evidence is that the
defendant is guilty. If you can draw two or more reasonable conclusions
from the circumstantial evidence, and one of those reasonable
conclusions points to innocence and another to guilt, you must accept the
one that points to innocence. However, when considering circumstantial
evidence, you must accept only reasonable conclusions and reject any
that are unreasonable.
New January 2006; Revised February 2013, March 2022
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- courts.ca.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-20
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- calcrim-2022
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