El, N. v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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• noting that criminal rules do not have a Rule 49 counterpart and “special interrogatories are generally disfavored in criminal cases”
• noting that courts of appeal should first “attempt to harmonize” a jury’s verdict of guilt that directly conflicts with answers to special interrogatories, so as to find a “fair reading” that renders the verdicts “consistent” (citations omitted)
• noting that courts of appeal should first “attempt to harmonize” a jury’s verdict of guilt that directly conflicts with answers to special interrogatories, so as to find a “fair reading” that renders the verdicts “consistent” (citations omitted)
• “[C]are must be taken in drafting interrogatories to minimize the risk of inconsistent verdicts.”
• “[T]he appropriate remedy for the inconsistency [within a count in the jury verdict] (when the jury was not given the op- portunity to reconsider) [i]s to set aside the guilty verdict[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).