Legal Opinion

United States v. Standefer

Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Decided October 22, 1991No. Nos. 90-2625 to 90-2628PublishedCited by 17 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

LOKEN, Circuit Judge.

These consolidated appeals raise a variety of Double Jeopardy Clause issues. In April 1990, a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Arkansas indicted appellants and others on charges of conspiring to manufacture, distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846. Appellants Kenneth Ray Kirk and Ralph Eugene Ivy moved to dismiss the indictment on the ground that the Double Jeopardy Clause as construed in Grady v. Corbin, 495 U.S. 508, 110 S.Ct. 2084, 109 L.Ed.2d 548 (1990), bars this prosecution because they were…

2Cases cited20 opinions

  1. Blockburger v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1931
  2. Abney v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
  3. Oregon v. KennedySupreme Court of the United States · 1982
  4. Grady v. CorbinSupreme Court of the United States · 1990
  5. United States v. DinitzSupreme Court of the United States · 1976

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3Cited by17 opinions

  1. United States v. BennettCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1995
  2. Butler v. DowdCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1992
  3. Sterling Dicken Donald Harden, Edward H. Pennington v. John Ashcroft Board of Probation and Parole Dept. Of Corrections Cranston Mitchell Dick MooreCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1992
  4. United States v. Bernard IvoryCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1994
  5. United States v. Michael Lenox OkolieCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1993

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