Ashe v. United States

The four cases before us each raise a different question. Those questions presented in Dobslaw and Burkholder are relatively easy to answer; for the reasons stated in the margin, I join in the majority’s disposition of those two cases.1 Although I *870disagree with the majority’s conclusion in Ashe, I do not find Ashe to be a particularly difficult case, and I explain in Part IIB, infra, my reasons for dissenting from the majority’s judgment. The most difficult— and most important — case before us is Bosworth. While I concur in the result reached by the majority in that case, I believe that the…