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happy Friday. It's September 19th. Everyone makes a motion for new trial after a conviction.

If there's an acquittal, there's nothing to ask for a new trial on, right? Because you don't

need to ask for a new trial. You're done. But if there's a conviction,

the first step would be that motion for new trial. And you see it during trial too. So the

prosecution does their case in chief. Then the defense is going to make their motion to dismiss

or motion for judgment of acquittal, depending on what jurisdiction you're in,

they will call it different things. I believe Florida calls it a J-O-A. Other jurisdictions call it motion

to dismiss. I will use the two interchangeably that happen at the end of the prosecutor's case.

Oftentimes you will see the defense renewing that motion, and we saw that in Florida versus Donna Adelson as well.

We saw the defense make their motion for judgment of acquittal. Then they did their case in chief.

Then they renewed the motion for judgment of acquittal. And we're like, hey, your honor. So I know that you said like, no.

But maybe now. Pretty, pretty fleas, can we do it now? And the judge was like, yeah, still no. And so the motion for new trial is not the same standard as a motion for judgment of acquittal.

It is the step before you're getting another court to take a look on appeal. So it is asking the

trial level court to evaluate whether or not a new trial should be granted based on reasons,

sometimes vibes. Sarah Boone's argument basically like, but your honor, not intentionally new

trial. And the judge was like, yeah, no. We saw the motion for new trial be pretty extensive

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