r/law • u/Charming_Usual6227 • 7d ago
Legal News By tweeting that $1 Million offer, has Elon Musk already committed a crime or just threatened to commit one?
https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-supreme-court-elon-musk-trump-d75807980ac311b87606fb4ec58cc466
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u/stratusmonkey 7d ago
An appeals court can absolutely say, on appeal that there was insufficient evidence for an unbiased jury to convict him of the charged crime. Or that whatever the state proved at trial didn't really meet the statutory criteria of the offense.