A jury's failure to reach a verdict on a co-accused does not render a guilty verdict against the accused unsafe or unreasonable where different standards of proof applied to each accused. In assessing whether verdicts are logically inconsistent, a court of criminal appeal is not confined to the factual basis upon which the prosecution conducted the trial; if there is evidence before the jury consistent with the verdict, appellate intervention is not justified even if that evidence was not relied upon by the prosecution.
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