insufficiency as a matter of law
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sufficiency of evidence — Term refers to test prescribed by rule providing that grand jury ought to find an indictment when all the evidence taken together, if unexplained or uncontradicted, would warrant a conviction by the trier of the offense. State v. Parks, Alaska,… … Black's law dictionary
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