Legal Opinion
Richardson v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 29, 1984No. 82-2113PublishedCited by 797 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Rehnquist
The jury trying petitioner acquitted him of one of several counts, but was unable to agree as to the others. The District Court declared a mistrial as to these counts of the indictment and set them down for retrial. Petitioner moved to bar his retrial, claiming that a second trial would violate the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment because evidence sufficient to convict on the remaining counts had not been presented by the Government at the first trial. The District Court denied this motion, and the Court of Appeals dismissed petitioner’s appeal from that ruling for lack of…
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