United States v. Moore

CARNES, Circuit Judge:

This is a simple sufficiency of the evidence case governed by Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 29(b), and specifically by the last sentence of that subsection. Fed.R.Crim.P. 29(b). It provides that if the district court reserves ruling on a motion for judgment of acquittal, the court must decide the motion on the basis of the evidence at the time the ruling was reserved. Id.

The provision is an important one. As the committee note to the amendment that added this provision in 1994 explains, it was designed to resolve a difficulty that defendants had faced when the court…