People v. Aranda

Stone v. Superior Court (1982) 31 Cal.3d 503 , 183 Cal.Rptr. 647 , 646 P.2d 809 ( Stone ) concluded that a court must accept a partial verdict of acquittal as to a charged greater offense when a jury has expressly indicated it has acquitted on that offense but has deadlocked on uncharged lesser included offenses. The question here is whether the Stone rule has been abrogated by the United States Supreme Court's decision in Blueford v. Arkansas (2012) 566 U.S. 599 , 132 S.Ct. 2044 , 182 L.Ed.2d 937 ( Blueford ), which concluded that federal double jeopardy principles do not require a court to…