District of Columbia v. I. P.

YEAGLEY, Associate Judge:

This appeal is taken by the District of Columbia from an order of the Family Division of Superior Court dismissing a delinquency petition charging robbery on the part of appellee, a juvenile, on the ground that further proceedings thereon were barred by the Fifth Amendment prohibition against double jeopardy. The Family Division found that jeopardy had attached in a previous fact-finding hearing on the same matter which had ended in a mistrial. The government concedes that were this an adult criminal case double jeopardy would bar a second hearing, but it argues that…