Can you have a directed verdict if the jury comes back with an unfavorable decision? Or is there somewhere during the trial that the judge has to make the call or the opportunity passes?
Here's hoping it doesn't have to come to that but if it does the judge just tells the prosecution to go do one if it does. Prosecution should be disbarred after this shitshow regardless of everything else.
Can you have a directed verdict if the jury comes back with an unfavorable decision? Or is there somewhere during the trial that the judge has to make the call or the opportunity passes?
A judge can overturn a guilty verdict to not guilty if he believes a miscarriage of justice has occurred by the guilty verdict.
Here's hoping it doesn't have to come to that but if it does the judge just tells the prosecution to go do one if it does. Prosecution should be disbarred after this shitshow regardless of everything else.