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DEFENDANT WAS CONVICTED OF DIRECTING THE CODEFENDANT TO KILL; THE CODEFENDANT WAS ACQUITTED OF MURDER; THE VERDICTS WERE REPUGNANT; DEFENSE COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE FOR FAILING TO OBJECT TO THE REPUGNANT VERDICTS (FOURTH DEPT).

The Fourth Department, reversing defendant’s conviction, determined defendant’s attorney was ineffective for failing to object to the repugnant verdict. Defendant was convicted of directing the codefendant to shoot and kill the victim. The codefendant was acquitted of the murder charge:

We agree with defendant … that he was denied meaningful representation at trial inasmuch as there is no reasonable and legitimate trial strategy for defense counsel’s failure to object to the repugnant verdicts  … . …

… “[A] conviction will be reversed [as repugnant] only in those instances where acquittal on one crime as charged to the jury is conclusive as to a necessary element of the other crime as charged, for which the guilty verdict was rendered” … . “The determination as to the repugnancy of the verdict is made solely on the basis of the trial court’s charge and not on the correctness of those instructions” … . The repugnancy doctrine also applies when one codefendant is convicted of a crime while another is acquitted of the same crime … . …

By acquitting the codefendant, the jury negated an essential element of the crime for which defendant was charged, i.e., that the codefendant committed the offense at defendant’s direction … . People v Jennings, 2021 NY Slip Op 00944, Fourth Dept 2-11-21

 

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