Commonwealth v. Clark

The court has before it motions to dismiss in the above captioned case and in the fourteen companion cases. With respect to the defendants, James Clark, Tony Gaskins, Lance Hullum, Timothy Bloom, Dana Carle and Casper Forte, the motion is based on the contention that the placement of these defendants in the Cedar Junction Departmental Disciplinary Unit (DDU), amounts to double jeopardy which would mandate the dismissal of the indictments in the present cases. The remaining eight cases2 also challenge the incarceration of the named defendants in the DDU, contending that it constitutes cruel…