As it upheld the conviction of a Northeast Florida man in the grisly murder of his estranged wife, the state Supreme Court tossed out a decades-old legal standard about circumstantial evidence in criminal appeals.

The court’s four-member majority said the change would lead to Florida joining federal courts and most other states in how judges weigh cases that only involve circumstantial evidence.

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