article_snippet.sent: The appellate judges based The appellate judges decision on legal issues involving witness testimony, not the underlying facts.
article_snippet.sent: Judges divided on Judges rationale, issuing four separate opinions to reverse the conviction and one to uphold it.
article_snippet.sent: The appeals court barred a retrial, citing a prohibition on double jeopardy.
article_snippet.sent: The government could ask the 11-judge panel to reconsider Wednesday's decision or could request that all 29 judges on the 9th Circuit rehear the case - which has never happened since The appeals court began using the "limited en banc" panels in 1980.
article_snippet.sent: Prosecutors also could petition The appeals court to review Wednesday's decision. '