Spriggs, Terrence Terrell

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that the State is not authorized to appeal a verdict of acquittal after jeopardy has attached
• recognizing that the State is not authorized to appeal a verdict of acquittal after jeopardy has attached
• holding that the trial judge’s resolution of the factual elements of the offense charged against the government, no matter its label, is an acquittal, which bars reprosecution
• holding that double jeopardy is only barred by acquittal when the ruling, whatever its label, actually represents a ruling in the defendant’s favor of some or all of the factual elements of the offense charged
• defining an acquittal as “a resolution, correct or not, of some or all of the factual elements of the offense charged”
• defining a judicial “acquittal” as a ruling by the court in favor of the defendant that, “whatever its label, actually represents a resolution, correct or not, of some or all of the factual elements of the offense charged”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).