State v. Medina

The state charged defendant with identity theft for signing two documents with another person’s name. At trial, defendant moved for a judgment of acquittal on the ground that no reasonable person could find that, in signing those documents, he had committed the charged acts. Additionally, defendant argued that, if he had committed those acts, no reasonable person could find that he had done so with the requisite mental state. The trial court denied defendant’s motion, convicted him of identity theft, as well as three other charged offenses, and entered judgment accordingly. The Court of…