{"id":6270,"date":"2017-11-02T22:33:12","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T22:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=6270"},"modified":"2017-11-02T22:39:46","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T22:39:46","slug":"motion-for-judgment-of-acquittal-upon-criminal-defendants-request-at-the-close-of-the-governments-presentment-of-evidence-to-be-acquitted-because-theres-not-legally-suffic","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=6270","title":{"rendered":"Motion for Judgment of Acquittal &#8211; upon criminal defendant\u2019s request, at the\u00a0close of the government\u2019s presentment of evidence, to be acquitted because there&#8217;s not legally sufficient evidentiary basis.  If granted, the government cannot appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">Motion for Judgment of Acquittal<\/span>:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>\u201c<\/strong>(1923) <strong>A criminal defendant\u2019s request, at the\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>close of the government\u2019s case or the close of all evidence, to be acquitted because there\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>is no legally sufficient evidentiary basis on which a reasonable jury could return a guilty\u00a0verdict. If the motion is granted, the government has no right of appeal. <a href=\"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/\/?page_id=4836\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fed. R Crim.\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/\/?page_id=4836\">P. 29(a)<\/a>.<\/strong> \u2013 Abbr. MJOA.<strong>\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Motion for Judgment of Acquittal: \u201c(1923) A criminal defendant\u2019s request, at the\u00a0close of the government\u2019s case or the close of all evidence, to be acquitted because there\u00a0is no legally sufficient evidentiary basis on which a reasonable jury could return a guilty\u00a0verdict. If the motion is granted, the government has no right of appeal. Fed. R &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=6270\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Motion for Judgment of Acquittal &#8211; upon criminal defendant\u2019s request, at the\u00a0close of the government\u2019s presentment of evidence, to be acquitted because there&#8217;s not legally sufficient evidentiary basis.  If granted, the government cannot appeal<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":6220,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6270","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6270"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6277,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6270\/revisions\/6277"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}