The Supreme Court on Monday added one new case, involving the double jeopardy clause and the Hobbs Act, to its docket for the ...

Some criminal acts could be state, federal, or both. The double jeopardy clause in the Fifth Amendment precludes the same state or federal court from trying the defendant twice for the same crime.

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 ...