State v. Marin

¶1 Double jeopardy prohibits multiple punishments for the same crime. Washington courts analyze double jeopardy issues by determining whether the crimes are both legally different, requiring differing elements, and factually different, as actually charged and tried. Here, the defendant appeals his convictions for possession of methamphetamine and maintaining a vehicle for drug trafficking, alleging double jeopardy. But here, the latter crime requires an element that the former does not, namely, a vehicle, in addition to having different time and mens rea elements. Accepting the State’s…