38 Va. App. 326 - Gaines v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Powell · 6 Va. App. 485 - Darnell v. Commonwealth · 16 Va. App. 82 - Pugliese v. Commonwealth · 9 Va. App. 298 - Bruce v. Commonwealth · 6 Va. App. 640 - Wolfe v. Commonwealth
Most-quoted passages
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“We acknowledge that a jury’s inconsistent verdicts do not, per se, provide a basis for reversal. However, the focus of this inquiry is the effect of error in instructing the jury on the verdict, not the inconsistency per se. Here, the inconsistent verdicts serve as evidence that the trial court’s error in refusing an instruction more precisely tailored to the issue in the case on the ground that it was not the model instruction, resulted in the jury’s misapprehension of the law, and confusion of the issue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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