Mr. Blagojevich requested that the court enter a judgment of acquittal or grant a new trial on the lying count.
10 But having chosen to vest its courts with the power to grant midtrial acquittals, the State must bear the corresponding risk that some acquittals will be granted in error. 2 In other words, the pattern jury instructions were incorrect.
See supra, at 4. If the concern is instead that our holding will make it easier for courts to insulate from review acquittals that are granted as a form of nullifi- cation, see Brief for Respondent 30, n.
When the prosecution rested its case Thursday, the defense filed its motion for acquittal, which is rarely granted.
Therefore, I need not rule, and do not decide, whether the motion for acquittal should have been granted.
The judge, Jeffrey P. Minehart of Common Pleas Court here, granted motions for acquittal on the charges against the physician, Dr. Kermit Gosnell, who ran the Women's Medical Center, a West Philadelphia abortion clinic.
We now definitively know that Hayne's testimony and his work with West led to at least two wrongful convictions, and acquittals after new trials were granted in other cases.
Judge Minehart also granted a motion for acquittal in five charges of abuse of corpse against Dr. Gosnell, who according to prosecutors killed fetuses that were alive after they were aborted by plunging scissors into their necks.
About ten minutes later, Judge Canan granted our motion for acquittal, and the trial was abruptly over.
Juries introduced real competition into Russia's courts, granting acquittals in 15 to 20 percent of cases, compared with less than 1 percent in cases decided by judges.
Judge David Sam, who had dismissed the case in 2001 before it came to trial only to have it reinstated on appeal, granted the defendants' motion for acquittal without sending the case to the jury.
