Opinion
No. 20010097
Decided October 16, 2001
Appeal from the District Court of Grand Forks County, Northeast Central Judicial District, the Honorable Karen Kosanda Braaten, Judge.
AFFIRMED.
David T. Jones, Assistant State's Attorney, and Tory J. Langemo, third-year law student, P.O. Box 5607, Grand Forks, N.D. 58206-5607, for plaintiff and appellee. Submitted on brief.
Steven J. Simonson, 421 DeMers Avenue, Suite 3, Grand Forks, N.D. 58201, for defendant and appellant.
[¶ 1] Randy Jensen appealed from the judgment entered upon his jury conviction for Failure to Appear After Release — Bail Jumping. When the record is viewed in its entirety, there is sufficient evidence to convict Jensen, and the trial court did not abuse its discretion in declining to grant Jensen's N.D.R.Crim.P. 29 motion for acquittal based on insufficiency of the evidence, which was made at the end of the prosecution's case-in-chief. We affirm under N.D.R.App.P 35.1(a)(3) and (4). See State v. Schaeffer, 450 N.W.2d 754,756 (N.D. 1990), overruled on other grounds,_State v. Himmerick, 499 N.W.2d 568, 570-72 (N.D. 1993) (holding that by presenting evidence after a N.D.R.Crim.P. 29 motion is denied at the close of the prosecution's case-in-chief, the defendant permits this Court to review the entire record).
[¶ 2] Gerald W. VandeWalle, C.J.
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