Jury verdicts of guilty on some counts and not guilty on others involving the same complainant are not inconsistent where the charges arose from separate disclosures elicited in materially different ways — specifically, where the first disclosure was prompted by open-ended questioning and the second by leading questions. For grooming offences under s 474.27(1), intention to procure sexual activity may be established by the totality of communications including earlier messages and tendency evidence, not merely the messages forming the subject count.
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