Legal Opinion
Puerto Rico v. Sanchez Valle
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 9, 2016No. 15-108PublishedCited by 117 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Kagan
The Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment prohibits more than one prosecution for the “same offence.” But under what is known as the dual-sovereignty doctrine, a single act gives rise to distinct offenses—and thus may subject a person to successive prosecutions—if it violates the laws of separate sovereigns. To determine whether two prosecuting authorities are different sovereigns for double jeopardy purposes, this Court asks a narrow, historically focused question. The inquiry does not turn, as the term “sovereignty” sometimes suggests, on the degree to which the second entity is…
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