Where a complainant's evidence on multiple counts arising from the same occasion is corroborated by preliminary complaint evidence on one count but not another, the jury may logically convict on the corroborated count and acquit on the uncorroborated count without the verdicts being inconsistent. Differences in the quality and specificity of corroborating evidence across counts provide a proper basis for reconciling apparently inconsistent verdicts.
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