Fifth Amendment. Stop Ignoring Double Jeopardy The Supreme Court should reconsider the misbegotten "dual sovereignty" doctrine. Jacob Sullum | 12.5.2018 12:01 AM ...

The dual sovereignty doctrine isn’t just a legal technicality; it’s a gateway for multiple layers of punishment. For drivers ...

One purpose of dual sovereignty was to prevent "wet" localities from nullifying the Volstead Act.In short, dual sovereignty is an accident of history. It was not part of the constitutional design.

Thus, the “dual sovereignty” doctrine – which allows for dual prosecution by tribal and federal authorities – does not apply, ... Heather Whiteman Runs Him, Court will assess double-jeopardy claim ...

But, at least with regard to the dual sovereignty rule, it is what they wrote: The meaning of “offences” was fairly clear and well-known in 1791. In Gamble v.

Critics are bemoaning the recent Supreme Court decision upholding the dual-sovereignty doctrine in Gamble v. United States.

The dual sovereignty doctrine is an exception to the prosecutorial bar limiting the possibility of successive prosecutions enacted by the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. ...

The dual sovereignty doctrine, Gorsuch noted, has its basis in substantive differences in the interests of two prosecuting sovereigns in punishing an act. It requires that the authority exercised ...

Update: On Dec. 6, 2018, the Supreme Court hears oral argument in Gamble v.United States, which seeks to eliminate the so-called “dual sovereignty” exception to the Double Jeopardy Clause. The ACLU ...

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to overturn a longstanding doctrine on whether an individual can be prosecuted for the same crime twice under federal and state laws. The justices, in a 7-2 ...

In its ruling today in Gamble v. United States, the Supreme Court, by a vote of 7 to 2, affirmed 170 years of precedent applying the dual-sovereignty doctrine to the Fifth Amendment’s Double ...