Padgett v. State

OPINION ON APPELLANT’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

CAMPBELL, Judge.

The Double Jeopardy Clause of our federal constitution protects a defendant from *56twice being placed in jeopardy for the same offense.1 Embodied within that guarantee is the doctrine of collateral estoppel — “the principle that bars relitigation between the same parties of issues actually determined at a previous trial.” Ashe v. Swenson, 397 U.S. 436, 442, 445-46, 90 S.Ct. 1189, 1193, 1195, 25 L.Ed.2d 469, 474, 476 (1970). We granted appellant’s petition for discretionary review to determine whether this federal doctrine…