State v. Griffin

WEBB, Judge.

The Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States provides in part:

“[N]or shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb. ...”

The United States Supreme Court has held that if a person has pled guilty to a crime and is later charged with another crime, the proof of which would prove all the elements of the crime to which he has previously pled guilty, he has then been tried twice for the first crime. This is proscribed by the double j eopardy clause of the Fifth Amendment. See Illinois v. Vitale, _U.S.___, 100 S. Ct. 2260, 65…