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3.675 documents for double jeopardy definition

- Smith v. Massachusetts, 543 U.S. ___ (2005)
... Massachusetts Appeals Court held that the Double Jeopardy Clause was not implicated because the tri...S. 140 , 145. The ruling here met the definition of an acquittal consistently used in this Court's ...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- US v. Scott, (4th Cir. 2007)
... federal conviction wrongly violated the Double Jeopardy Clause because he was convicted for the s... "central feature of double jeopardy's definition of offense is the 'dual sovereignty do...
- Federal Circuits
- United States v. Scott, 437 U.S. 82 (1978)
... of an indictment except where the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment prohibits f... rule by fashioning a more restrictive definition of "acquittal" than heretofore followed - i. e., "...
- U.S. Supreme Court

- Blueford v. Arkansas, 566 U.S. (2012)
... capital and first-degree murder charges on double jeopardy grounds. The trial court denied the moti... cause the death-satisfying the definition of ------ 1 In reaching a contrary conclusion, po...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Holder v. Martinez Gutierrez, 566 U.S. (2012)
... capital and first-degree murder charges on double jeopardy grounds. The trial court denied the moti... cause the death-satisfying the definition of ------ 1 In reaching a contrary conclusion, po...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Kansas v. Hendricks, 521 U.S. 346 (1997)
... not address Hendricks' ex post facto and double jeopardy claims. Held:. 1. The Act's definition of...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Garrett v. United States, 471 U.S. 773 (1985)
... importation operation in violation of the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment. At trial, ... A common-sense reading of this definition reveals a carefully crafted prohibition aimed at a...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Grady v. Corbin, 495 U.S. 508 (1990)
... indictment on, inter alia, constitutional double jeopardy grounds was denied by the County Court. H... intent, but rather an exclusive definition of the term "same offense" in the Double Jeopardy ...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Illinois v. Vitale, 447 U.S. 410 (1980)
... Court held that it was barred by the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment, as applied... clause, the greater offense is by definition the `same' as the lesser offense included within i...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Brown v. Ohio, 432 U.S. 161 (1977)
... . The Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment, applied to...The greater offense is therefore by definition the "same" for purposes of double jeopardy as any ...
- U.S. Supreme Court