double jeopardy court cases

• Hiring, firing, prison food, double jeopardy, and contempt of Court--a smorgasbord of cases.

Who has the authority to hire, fire, promote, or demote you? For an individual environmental health worker, that authority is generally specified in a...

• Journal of Environmental Health
• Vol. 65 Nbr. 8, April 2003

• Court Limits Double-Jeopardy Protection

The Supreme Court on Thursday limited the Constitution's protection against double jeopardy in cases of multiple charges and deadlocked juries. The court said a jury's unanimous but tentative vote to acquit a defendant on some charges while deadlocked on others does not count as a verdict.

• Buffalo News
• May 25, 2012

• Go directly to jail, do not pass go, do not keep house.

The Supreme Court held in United States v. Ursery that civil forfeitures do not qualify as punishment for purposes of the double jeopardy clause. The court thereby reversed two Sixth and Ninth Circuit cases precluded a criminal punishment and a civil forfeiture from taking plance in parallel proceedings. The court erred in not fashioning a fairer test for determining when the Double Jeopardy Clause should bar civil forfeitures.

• Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
• Vol. 87 Nbr. 3, March 1997

• High Court Limits Double-Jeopardy Protection

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court Thursday limited the Constitution's protection against double jeopardy in cases involving multiple charges and deadlocked juries. The 6-3 decision holds that a jury's unanimous but tentative vote to acquit a defendant on some charges does not count as a verdict.

• Charleston Gazette
• May 25, 2012

• Renico v. Lett, 559 U. S. (2010)

... any manifest necessity to do so, the Double Jeopardy Clause barred the State from trying him a... cited this Court’s double jeopardy cases—from Perez to Washington—applying those precedents to...

• U.S. Supreme Court

• Fifth Amendment: Rights Of Persons

... for preferring charges in serious criminal cases shows the high place it held as an instrument of j... function of grand juries in federal courts is to return criminal indictments, but the juries... . Double Jeopardy . Development and Scope . "The constit...

• Constitution of the United States (Annotated)

• Death Row Inmate Claims Double Jeopardy

The lawyer for a man convicted of killing an 81-year-old woman 16 years ago argued before the Missouri Supreme Court on Thursday that her client's conviction should be set aside on grounds of double jeopardy. Attorney Elizabeth Unger Carlyle asked the court to find that double jeopardy bars retrial in cases where the prosecutor commits intentional misconduct, which is what she alleges happened to defendant Walter Barton. The issue hasn't been decided by either the state Supreme Court or the U.S. Supreme Court, she said, adding that a ruling in Barton's favor by the state court wouldn't be a departure from federal precedent.

• St. Charles County Business Record
• September 08, 2007

• Yeager v. United States, 557 U. S. (2009)

... that the issue-preclusion component of the Double Jeopardy Clause therefore barred a second trial fo... decided an exceptionally large number of cases interpreting this provision, see, e.g., United Sta...

• U.S. Supreme Court

• The Constitution and the laws of war during the Civil War.

...The Work of Lower Federal Courts in 1861 and 1862 1. Decisions on Prize and Other S...The Prize Cases B. Wartime Decisions After the Prize Cases 1. Addi... as the theory of the "dual status" or "double character" of the Civil War. (44) Most aspects of ...V (grand jury, due process, no double jeopardy, privilege against self-incrimination). . (80) A f...

• Notre Dame Law Review
• Vol. 85 Nbr. 5, December 2010

• United States v. Ursery, 518 U.S. 267 (1996)

... against Arlt and Wren, holding that the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits the Government from both...This Court consolidated the cases. Held: In rem civil forfeitures are neither "punis...

• U.S. Supreme Court