That’s the harsh reality behind the “dual sovereignty” loophole ... arguing that this violated his Fifth Amendment right against double jeopardy. The courts didn’t agree.

United States, the Supreme Court, by a vote of 7 to 2, affirmed 170 years of precedent applying the dual-sovereignty doctrine to the Fifth Amendment’s Double Jeopardy Clause. As Justice Alito ...

The Supreme Court on Monday added one new case, involving the double jeopardy clause and the Hobbs Act, to its docket for the 2025-26 term. The justices opted not to intervene in a First Amendment ...

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 ...

THEREFORE, THEY ARGUE, RETRYING HER WOULD VIOLATE HER CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTION AGAINST DOUBLE JEOPARDY. WE HAD A LENGTHY ARGUMENT IN FRONT OF THE CHIEF JUDGE OF THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT ...

Wednesday began with the defense team’s try at the federal courthouse in Boston, where Read defense attorney Martin Weinberg argued that double jeopardy protections — that a defendant can’t ...