All state constitutions drafted prior to the Bill of Rights contained a double jeopardy provision. The principle was so universal that when James Madison proposed on the floor of the First ...
In United States v. Aiello, the Second Circuit (Raggi, Chin, Sullivan) remanded the cases of Steven Aiello, Joseph Gerardi, Louis Ciminelli, and ...
Dwayne Barrett was convicted of Hobbs Act robbery and related charges. In Barrett, the justices agreed to decide whether the Fifth Amendment’s ban on double jeopardy prohibits sentencing him for two ...
As described by the Cornell Law School, in criminal cases, the Fifth Amendment guarantees the right to a grand jury, forbids “double jeopardy,” and protects against self-incrimination." ...