State v. Kramer

BAKER, Justice.

The State appeals the trial court’s dismissal of this criminal case on double jeopardy grounds. Initially, the court orally granted the defendant’s motion for judgment of acquittal for insufficiency of the evidence, but then immediately reversed this ruling upon being informed that the evidence thought lacking was in the record. Upon the defendant’s objection that this reversal violated the Double Jeopardy Clause, the court dismissed the case. We are asked to decide: (1) whether a court may immediately revise an oral ruling on a motion for judgment of acquittal without…