At the first trial, the court correctly declined to "accept" a purported verdict of guilty on two counts of criminal trespass. The court had submitted three counts of second-degree burglary with three corresponding counts of the lesser included offense of second-degree criminal trespass. As to one of these pairs of counts, the jury reached a proper verdict, acquitting defendant of burglary and convicting him of trespass, and the court accepted that verdict. The jury announced...
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