Acquittal decisions in criminal cases often give rise to debate, especially
regarding the legal coherence between the judge’s basic considerations and the
facts revealed at trian. One interesting case to study is Decision Number
454/Pid.B/2024/PN Sby in a murder case. What the author focuses on in this
research is the extent to which the legal considerations used by the judge in the
decision are in line with the fact of the trial and the principles of justice, as well as
how this decision ref;ects legal certainty for the parties involved. This research
aims to study, understand and analyze the legal coherence of the judge;s basic
considerations with the fact of the trial in acquittal decisions in murder cases. This
research uses a normative legal research mehod which focuses on legal norms
using secondary data as the main data. The research results show that there is a
discrepancy between the chronology of the cae based on facts and the judge;s
considerations. Therefore, this research plays an mportant role in analyzing the
legal coherence of the judge’s basic considerations with the facts of the trial in
acquittal decisions in murdr cases.