First, the Court reads the Double Jeopardy Clause as a protection against conduct by the same “sovereign.” Accordingly, since the federal government is, like each state, a separate ...

In United States v. Aiello, the Second Circuit (Raggi, Chin, Sullivan) remanded the cases of Steven Aiello, Joseph Gerardi, Louis Ciminelli, and ...

The US Supreme Court appointed Williams & Connolly partner Charles McCloud to argue in a case in which the federal government agrees with the defendant’s double jeopardy argument.

The Supreme Court has tapped a former clerk to Justice Sonia Sotomayor to defend a lower court ruling in next term’s Barrett v. United States, a New York man’s challenge to his robbery convictions and ...