Differentiated jury verdicts in sexual assault cases involving a single complainant may be reconciled where the timing and specificity of complaint evidence differs between counts, where one count requires greater particularity than others, and where the jury may have taken a practical view that convictions on some counts sufficiently reflected the accused's culpability. The absence of a complaint regarding a specific allegation until days after the events, when complaints regarding other allegations were made on the day, provides a proper basis for reconciling guilty and not guilty verdicts.
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