Where a complainant's evidence about crucial events is irreconcilable with the evidence of a prosecution witness who was an alleged eyewitness, and there is no rational basis for rejecting the exculpatory evidence, the jury's advantage in seeing and hearing the evidence cannot resolve the resulting doubt, and the verdict will be set aside as unsafe and unsatisfactory. A jury is not entitled to reject exculpatory evidence capriciously; there must be a rational basis for doing so.
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