Which event starts a post-verdict motion for judgment of acquittal?

Preserve the actual guilty-verdict event and jury discharge. Rule 29(c)(1) uses whichever is later.

Do not substitute written judgment entry or an assumed later date. This guide does not perform the comparison.

Rule 29(c)(3) does not make a prior motion before jury submission a prerequisite to a post-discharge motion. Civil Rule 50(b) is a different procedure.

1. Identify the actual actor, procedure and grounds.
2. Establish the operative event or required event comparison.
3. Read all applicable conditions. This page calculates no date.
4. Check final-day conditions and the required act. Review actual granted relief separately.

Exclude the independently established operative event. Count every following calendar day, including intermediate weekends and legal holidays, under FRCrP 45(a)(1). These Criminal Rules motions use district-court computation rather than substituting an appellate filing rule.

Rule 45(a)(1) carries a final Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday to the next qualifying day. Rule 45(a)(6) includes federal and President or Congress declared holidays. For forward periods, also check holidays declared by the state where the district court is located. Qualifying clerk inaccessibility is separate.

Rule 29(c)(1) requires a comparison of actual verdict and jury-discharge events. The isolated single-date preset cannot establish that comparison. No computed date or paid record is published here.

Actual verdict and discharge

Preserve both applicable events and establish the later event. A selected single input does not perform that comparison.

No prior-motion prerequisite

Rule 29(c)(3) does not require an acquittal motion before jury submission as a prerequisite for a post-discharge motion.

Actual granted enlargement

Rule 45(b)(1) permits the court to extend time on its own, or for good cause on a party’s motion before expiry. After expiry, the party’s motion requires failure to act because of excusable neglect. A request or agreement is not an actual grant. This preset computes the ordinary period, not granted relief.

• This page does not establish grounds, merits, actual filing or court action.
• A motion’s filing date and its effect on appeal time are separate questions.

• Identify the actual defendant, court action or appellate procedure.
• Preserve the actual verdict, finding, plea, sentence or criminal-docket evidence.
• Check the actual grounds, any required event comparison and all motion dispositions.
• Read actual orders, local instructions and the separate appeal rules.
• File the motion in the district court and verify separate service. Unless a statute, local rule or court order sets another time, Rule 45(a)(4)(A) ends electronic filing at midnight in the court’s time zone. Subsection (B) uses scheduled clerk closing for other means. Preserve actual filing evidence and check qualifying clerk inaccessibility. The calculator does not establish filing or entitlement to relief.