Joya v. United States

THOMPSON, Associate Judge:

This matter is an interlocutory appeal from the trial court’s denial of a motion by appellant Pedro Joya to dismiss a charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor (CDM), on which appellant is awaiting trial. Appellant contends that the government is barred by collateral estoppel, as embodied in the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, from prosecuting him on that charge, which arose in connection with robbery, assault, and *312weapons offenses of which appellant was acquitted in an earlier trial. The government contends…