Court Opinion

ID: 9480367
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 07:45:41.337918+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:47:38.258171
License: Public Domain

DAVID R. THOMPSON, Circuit Judge,
concurring:
I concur, but write separately because in my view it is necessary only to decide that the district court’s judgment of acquittal n.o.v. is not an order “reducing the degree of the offense or the punishment imposed.” See 8 G.C.A. 130.20(a)(4); People v. Drake, 19 Cal.3d 749, 756, 139 Cal.Rptr. 720, 723, *1288566 P.2d 622, 625 (1977). The judgment is not such an order, and as a result the government’s appeal is not permitted by section 130.20(a)(4).