Legal Opinion
United States v. Ortiz
District Court, N.D. Iowa
Decided March 23, 1999No. CR-97-3008-MWBPublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER REGARDING DEFENDANTS’ POST-TRIAL MOTIONS
BENNETT, District Judge.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. BACKGROUND.1076
II. LEGAL ANALYSIS..• 1078
A. The Motions For Judgment Of Acquittal .1078
1. Standards applicable to motions for judgment of acquittal.1078
2. Sufficiency of the evidence.1079
B. The Motions For New Trial.1081
1. Standards applicable to motions for new trial.1082
2. Weight of the evidence.1083
a. Astello.1083
b. Ortiz and Kozak.1083
III. CONCLUSION 1086
In the early morning hours of June 7, 1997, Gregory Sky Erickson, a fifteen-year old boy from Estherville, Iowa, was brutally…
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