2017 Pa. Super. 195 - Commonwealth v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “If there are two or more counts in the information or indictment, the jury may report a verdict or verdicts with respect to those counts upon which it has agreed, and the judge shall receive and record all such verdicts. If the jury cannot agree with respect to all the counts in the information or indictment if those counts to which it has agreed operate as an acquittal of lesser or greater included offenses to which they cannot agree, these latter counts shall be dismissed. When the counts in the information or indictment upon which the jury cannot agree are not included offenses of the counts in the information or indictment upon which it has agreed, the defendant or defendants may be retried on those counts in the information or indictment.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Fudge

2. “retrial of charges on which a jury has been unable to agree is not barred unless the jury made findings on one or more other charges which must be interpreted as an acquittal of the offense for which the defendant is to be retried.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Brockington-Winchester

3. “A person commits an attempt when, with intent to commit a specific crime, he does any act which constitutes a substantial step toward the commission of that crime.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Brockington-Winchester