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· 6/28/1991

United States v. Robert Garcia, Jane Lee Garcia and Ralph Vallone, Jr., Robert Garcia and Jane Lee Garcia

Citations

  • 938 F.2d 12
  • 1991 U.S. App. LEXIS 14359

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that retrial on sufficiently proved theory was proper after conviction based on alternative instruction was reversed because one of the alternative theories had not' been proved
  • jury silence did not bar retrial where insufficient evidence supported an alternative theory and the jury verdict was ambiguous as to which theory the jury accepted
  • ambiguous verdict does not constitute implicit acquittal

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Judges: Timbers, Meskill, Pratt

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