Carlisle v. United States

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1996-05-13

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*434 Justice Souter, concurring. In Part I of his dissenting opinion, Justice Stevens makes a persuasive argument that, absent a rule to the contrary, district judges have an “inherent authority” to enter a judgment of acquittal, although, for the reasons offered by the majority, ante, at 426,1 am not persuaded that this inherent authority ext…

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