Acevedo Velez, Carmiña v. Acevedo Velez, Lilliana

How courts have described this case

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• “[T]here must be some basis from which a jury could rationally conclude that the defendant is guilty of the lesser, but not the greater offense.” (emphasis added)
• purpose of providing lesser-included offense instructions when evidence supports them is to prevent conviction of greater offense rather than acquittal when the jury is convinced the defendant is guilty of some crime

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).