Perspective
Oct. 4, 2016
Double jeopardy at the US high court
On Tuesday, as the U.S. Supreme Court kicks off its new term, the justices will hear oral arguments about tricky question of double jeopardy law which has divided the lower courts. By Gabriel J. Chin
Gabriel J. Chin
Edward L. Barrett chair of law, Martin Luther King, Jr. professor of law, and director of Clinical Legal Education
UC Davis School of Law
On Tuesday, as the U.S. Supreme Court kicks off its new term, the justices will hear oral arguments in Bravo-Fernandez v. United States, an appeal out of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The case presents a tricky question of double jeopardy law which has divided the lower courts: how to treat convictions that were vacated and are no longer in effect.
Bravo-Fernandez involves the "collateral estoppe...
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