Maras v. Commonwealth
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of first-degree stalking, violation of a protective order, and being a first-degree persistent felony offender. Relying upon post-trial comments attributed to jurors implying that the jury had not agreed unanimously on all of the statutory elements of the crime of first-degree stalking, Defendant filed a motion for judgment of acquittal notwithstanding the verdict or a new trial. The trial court denied the motion, and the Court of Appeals affirmed. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that the record in this case did not warrant departure from the historic rule prohibiting the use of post-trial juror statements to impeach a facially valid verdict.
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