People v. Batts

*665Opinion

GEORGE, C. J.

After an earlier joint trial on first degree murder indictments ended in mistrial as the result of the prosecution’s intentional misconduct, defendants Tracy L. Batts and Terrance McCrea were retried and convicted of those same charges. The Court of Appeal reversed the convictions, holding that the trial court erred by failing to grant defendants’ pretrial motions to dismiss on double jeopardy grounds, and remanding with directions to enter judgments of dismissal as to each defendant. We granted review to consider the circumstances under which a prosecutor’s intentional…