U.S. v. GREER

No. 86-3526.

850 F.2d 1447 (1988)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Arthur J. GREER, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

August 1, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul J. Moriarty, Asst. U.S. Atty., Tampa, Fla., Vicki L. Plaut, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Land & Natural Resources Div., Robert Klarquist, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff-appellant.

James M. Russ, Orlando, Fla., for defendant-appellee.

Before TJOFLAT and HATCHETT, Circuit Judges, and LYNNE, Senior District Judge.


TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:

In this case, a jury returned verdicts of guilty against the defendant on seventeen counts. Citing insufficiency of the evidence, the trial judge entered judgments of acquittal with respect to two of those counts. The Government now appeals those judgments. We hold that we have jurisdiction to entertain the Government's appeal, and that the district court erred in entering the judgments of acquittal.

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