State v. Cormier

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Jacobs, J.

The defendant Robert J. Cormier was acquitted on a conspiracy charge that he and James P. Butler had unlawfully agreed to obtain loans from the Eranklin Bank and the First Fatronal Bank of Passaic County through false statements regarding his company’s financial condition. He was later tried and convicted on the substantive charge of unlawfully having obtained loans from the Eranklin Bank through such false statements. The question before us is whether the conviction may be permitted to stand in the light of the principles of double jeopardy…