Washington v. State

BERGER, Justice,

for the majority:

In this criminal appeal we consider whether the trial court should have granted appellant’s motion for judgment of acquittal based on conflicts in the State’s evidence. In most cases, inconsistencies in the evidence are resolved by the jury. Here, however, the State’s two relevant witnesses gave irreconcilably different accounts of material facts. Most significantly, the victim testified that two men pulled her into an alley and robbed her at gunpoint. One of the assailants, who was the State’s only witness against appellant, testified that three men…