Section 330.50. Motion to set aside verdict; order granting motion


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  • 1.  Upon setting aside or modifying a verdict or a part thereof upon a
      ground  specified  in  subdivision one of section 330.30, the court must
      take the same  action  as  the  appropriate  appellate  court  would  be
      required  to  take  upon  reversing  or  modifying  a  judgment upon the
      particular ground in issue.
        2.    Upon  setting  aside  a  verdict  upon  a  ground  specified  in
      subdivision two of section 330.30, the court must order a new trial.
        3.    Upon  setting  aside  a  verdict  upon  a  ground  specified  in
      subdivision three of section 330.30, the court must, except as otherwise
      provided in this subdivision, order a new trial.   If a verdict  is  set
      aside upon the ground that had the newly discovered evidence in question
      been  received  at  the  trial the verdict probably would have been more
      favorable to the defendant in that the conviction  probably  would  have
      been  for  a  lesser  offense than the one contained in the verdict, the
      court may either (a) set aside such verdict or (b) with the  consent  of
      the  people  modify  such verdict by reducing it to one of conviction of
      such lesser offense.
        4.  Upon a new trial resulting from an order setting aside a  verdict,
      the indictment is deemed to contain all the counts and to charge all the
      offenses  which  it contained and charged at the time the previous trial
      was commenced, regardless of whether any  count  was  dismissed  by  the
      court  in  the  course  of such trial, except those upon or of which the
      defendant was acquitted or is deemed to have been acquitted.