Camden v. Circuit Court of the Second Judicial Circuit

HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Circuit Judge.

Appellant Julia Camden’s state trial on charges of aggravated battery, armed violence, and attempted murder ended on June 28, 1984, when Judge A. Hanby Jones of the Circuit Court of Crawford County, Illinois determined that juror bias required his sua sponte declaration of a mistrial. Camden subsequently moved to bar her repros-ecution on the ground that the fifth amendment double jeopardy clause prohibited a second trial.1 The majority of an Illinois appellate court reversed the trial court’s denial of Camden’s motion and found that the trial court’s…