Congratulations to David Carter on a Successful Motion for Judgement of Acquittal!

In criminal law, there is a stage after the prosecutor has rested his/her case, but before the defense has offered any evidence, that the defense can argue to the judge that even if everything the prosecutor has submitted were to be true, that it does not prove the crime alleged.  Exactly this happened for Mr. Carter.  His client was accused of assault for swinging a backpack into his mother and that the contact caused her pain.  Through cross examination of the prosecutor’s witnesses, it was established that Mr. Carter’s client was merely putting on the backpack and his mom came in from behind just as he was swinging the backpack across his back so that he could put his left arm into the arm loop.  Once the prosecutor rested, Mr. Carter argued to declare a judgment of acquittal for that allegation and it was granted!