Add to ORKGThe constitutional and statutory safeguards against a person being twice placed in jeopardy for the same offense are well known both to laymen and lawyers alike. What has gone largely unnoticed by the Virginia courts is the applicability of the doctrine of res judicata to the area of criminal law. It is the purpose of this comment to make the reader aware of the doctrine of res judicata as it applies to criminal cases and to attempt to clear up the confusion which has developed in this area of Virginia law
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has held that a finding on the defendant\u27s argument for dischar...
The Constitution’s Double Jeopardy Clause is an analytically gnarly beast. What seems like a fairly ...
When a defendant requests and is granted a mistrial, jeopardy will attach if a prosecutor’s conduct ...
The Virginia Constitution provides: That in criminal prosecutions a man . . . shall not . . . be pu...
Both the United States Constitution\u27 and the Constitution of Virginia recognize the right of an i...
In the 1986 legislative session, the Virginia General Assembly attempted to produce a constitutional...
The principle of res judicata as applied to civil litigation is very familiar. Likewise well known i...
In State ex rel. Dowdy v. Robinson the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals substantially altered ...
This Note argues that the application of the dual sovereignty doctrine to cases involving successive...
The case of United States v. One De Soto Sedan has again focused attention on some of the perplexing...
How should the legal community think about double jeopardy in the wake of the Rodney King affair? Th...
This article analyzes the U. S. constitutional law interpreting the concept of “same offence.” Inclu...
peer-reviewedDouble jeopardy jurisprudence evolved in the common law in response to the inherent de...
Applying state substantive law, the Fourth Circuit held that a prior adjudication of negligence in a...
A preview of two 1996 Supreme Court cases. In the first case, US v. Ursery, a convicted narcotics de...
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has held that a finding on the defendant\u27s argument for dischar...
The Constitution’s Double Jeopardy Clause is an analytically gnarly beast. What seems like a fairly ...
When a defendant requests and is granted a mistrial, jeopardy will attach if a prosecutor’s conduct ...
The Virginia Constitution provides: That in criminal prosecutions a man . . . shall not . . . be pu...
Both the United States Constitution\u27 and the Constitution of Virginia recognize the right of an i...
In the 1986 legislative session, the Virginia General Assembly attempted to produce a constitutional...
The principle of res judicata as applied to civil litigation is very familiar. Likewise well known i...
In State ex rel. Dowdy v. Robinson the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals substantially altered ...
This Note argues that the application of the dual sovereignty doctrine to cases involving successive...
The case of United States v. One De Soto Sedan has again focused attention on some of the perplexing...
How should the legal community think about double jeopardy in the wake of the Rodney King affair? Th...
This article analyzes the U. S. constitutional law interpreting the concept of “same offence.” Inclu...
peer-reviewedDouble jeopardy jurisprudence evolved in the common law in response to the inherent de...
Applying state substantive law, the Fourth Circuit held that a prior adjudication of negligence in a...
A preview of two 1996 Supreme Court cases. In the first case, US v. Ursery, a convicted narcotics de...
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has held that a finding on the defendant\u27s argument for dischar...
The Constitution’s Double Jeopardy Clause is an analytically gnarly beast. What seems like a fairly ...
When a defendant requests and is granted a mistrial, jeopardy will attach if a prosecutor’s conduct ...