United States v. Hager

ORDER

T.S. ELLIS III, District Judge.

In this capital case, defendant Thomas Morocco Hager was tried and convicted of killing Barbara White while engaged in a conspiracy to traffic drugs in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 846, 841(a)(1), and 848(e)(1)(A). During trial, defendant made a number of motions that were ruled on from the Bench. At issue here is defendant’s motion for a judgment of acquittal under Rule 29, Fed.R.Crim.P. made at the close of the government’s case-in-chief. The purpose of this Order is to identify and elucidate the legal principles that governed the disposition of defendant’s…