United States First Circuit

In a case raising important and novel issues about when an acquittal in an earlier trial may be deemed to bar, under the Double Jeopardy Clause, a new prosecution on a related offense, arising in connection with the federal bribery prosecutions of a former member of the Puerto Rico Senate and of the former president of a Puerto Rico private security firm, the district court's denial of defendants' motions to enter a judgment of acquittal is affirmed over defendants' challenges where the court's line order did not constitute an irreversible acquittal of the defendants of those counts under the Double Jeopardy Clause.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/15/2015
• Published 06/15/2015

Judges

• BARRON

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel