Where a jury fails to agree on some counts but returns guilty verdicts on others, the failure to agree cannot inform the appellate court's assessment of the complainant's credibility if the counts are factually unrelated. The submission that a jury's inability to agree on some counts casts doubt on the complainant's credibility generally is predicated on the fallacy that a witness's evidence must be accepted or rejected in its entirety.
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