People v. Jackson

OPINION OF THE COURT

Defendant was charged, along with two codefendants, with second degree murder and four counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree. The possession counts involved four different weapons. The jury convicted him of one of the weapons counts and acquitted him of the other charges. The Appellate Division reversed on the law and as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice. Labelling defendant’s conviction as "duplicitous”, the court noted that because the four counts of weapon possession were all identically worded, *114it was impossible to determine…