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U.S. v. Ouedraogo, No. 1:08-cr-68 (W.D.Mich.) (837 F.Supp.2d 720) (December 21, 2011) (Judge Janet T. Neff)

Loaded on July 23, 2012 published in Punch and Jurists July 23, 2012
Filed under: Punch And Jurists, Sufficiency of Evidence.

Here the Court granted a judgment of acquittal after finding that the Government’s case against the defendant consisted of using “smoke and mirrors” and required “unreasonable inferences” that were little more than “a stretch of pure speculation.

It takes a lot of courage for a Federal judge to accuse the ...

 

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