People v. Hoffer

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the jury’s verdict was inconsistent because “the jury concluded that the defendant killed another[ ] intentionally or knowingly ... while simultaneously finding that defendant recklessly but unintentionally caused the death of the victim”
• rejecting argument that the jury impliedly acquitted defendant of murder after it returned multiple verdicts
• the mental states involved in the two offenses were mutually inconsistent and a jury could not find that both existed in the same case
• Guilty verdicts on charges of murder and manslaughter imply that jury found two mutually exclusive mental states for same act requiring reversal and new trial on all counts.
• Guilty verdicts on charges of murder and manslaughter imply that jury found two mutually exclusive mental states for same act requiring reversal and new trial on all counts.
• mutually exclusive guilty verdicts require reversal and a new trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).