Legal Opinion
Missouri v. Hunter
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 19, 1983No. 81-1214PublishedCited by 2,102 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Burger
We granted certiorari to consider whether the prosecution and conviction of a criminal defendant in a single trial on both a charge of “armed criminal action” and a charge of first-degree robbery — the underlying felony — violates the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment.
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On the evening of November 24, 1978, respondent and two accomplices entered an A & P supermarket in Kansas City, *361Missouri. Respondent entered the store manager’s office and ordered the manager, at gunpoint, to open two safes. While the manager was complying with the demands of the robbers, respondent struck him…
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