28 Va. App. 227 - Gray v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

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10 state decisions

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1. “As this Court has held, "[t]he fact that verdicts may, on their face, arguably appear inconsistent does not provide a basis to reverse either conviction on appeal, provided the evidence is sufficient to support each verdict." Pugliese v. Commonwealth, 16 Va.App. 82, 96 , 428 S.E.2d 16, 26 (1993) (citing United States v. Powell, 469 U.S. 57, 66 , 105 S.Ct. 471, 477 , 83 L.Ed.2d 461 . . . (1984) (emphasis added)). "Jury verdicts may appear inconsistent because the jury has elected through mistake, compromise, or lenity to acquit or to convict of a lesser offense for one charged crime that seems in conflict with the verdict for another charged offense." Pugliese, 16 Va. App. at 96 , 428 S.E.2d at 26 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 39 Va. App. 562 - Gaines v. Commonwealth

2. “the trial court erred in refusing to instruct the jury, while it was deliberating during the sentencing phase, that if it acquitted [Gray] of murder, it should not find him guilty of the firearm charge. Id. at 229-30 , 503 S.E.2d at 253 . We held that”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 39 Va. App. 562 - Gaines v. Commonwealth

3. “not[ed] that Wolfe did not seek a cautionary instruction that if the jury acquitted him of murder, they should then find him not guilty of use of a firearm in the commission of murder.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 39 Va. App. 562 - Gaines v. Commonwealth