People v. Goodman’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 2010
4 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
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““In the case of a mixed verdict, the defendant has been acquitted by the jury of some of the charges in a multicount indictment but, at the instance of defendant, the conviction has been set aside because of trial error. In that situation, the People are not foreclosed by either double jeopardy or collateral estoppel concerns from reprosecuting the defendant on the charge which resulted in conviction. Acquittal on the joined charges does not give rise to a determination of an ‘ultimate fact’ which would bar prosecution because manifestly, unless the verdict is repugnant or inconsistent, the jury could not have found favorably to defendant on an element of the crime of which it convicted him. (see, United States v. Jones, 404 F.Supp. 529, 544 , aff'd, 538 F.2d 321 (3rd Cir.)). ⅜ ⅜ ⅜ jjs ⅜{ sjt “Application of the collateral estoppel doctrine requires that the court determine what the first judgment decided and how that determination bears on the later judgment (United States v. Mespoulede, 597 F.2d 329, 333 (2nd Cir. [1979]), supra; United States v. Kramer, 289 F.2d 909, 913 (2nd Cir. [1961]), supra; see, Ashe v. Swenson, 397 U.S. 436, 444 , 90 S.Ct. 1189, 1194 , 25 L.Ed.2d 469 , supra). The rule is easily stated but frequently difficult to implement because the meaning of a general verdict is not always clear and mixed verdicts may, at times, appear inherently ambiguous. Nevertheless, the court must assume the jury reached a rational result (Ashe v. Swenson, supra), and a def”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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