The Supreme Court ruled in Barrett v. United States that a defendant may not receive two firearm convictions for a single ...
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Court unanimously holds that double jeopardy bars convictions for two firearm offenses
In Barrett v. United States, the court held in an opinion by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson that the Constitution’s double jeopardy clause prohibits a defendant from receiving two convictions for […] ...
The Supreme Court will eventually need to resolve a "tension" in the way it has handled past cases, Gorsuch wrote in a new ...
Update: On Dec. 6, 2018, the Supreme Court hears oral argument in Gamble v. United States, which seeks to eliminate the so-called “dual sovereignty” exception to the Double Jeopardy Clause. The ACLU ...
Karen Read, the Massachusetts woman accused in the death of her police officer boyfriend, has filed an emergency petition with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking an immediate stay of her high-profile ...
A district court judge has denied a defendant’s motion to dismiss a sexual abuse case, rejecting arguments that prior child welfare proceedings bar the prosecution under constitutional protections ...
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