Where a joint criminal enterprise case involves sequential offences, the jury may rationally acquit on an earlier offence (where knowledge of a co-offender's weapon was in doubt) but convict on a later offence (where that knowledge was established by the occurrence of the earlier event). The intermediate fact of knowledge of the firearm, once resolved by the first shooting, was no longer an issue for the second shooting, permitting different verdicts without inconsistency.
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