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Supreme Court· 6/8/1959

Bartkus v. Illinois

Citations

  • 359 U.S. 121
  • 79 S. Ct. 676
  • 3 L. Ed. 2d 684
  • 1959 U.S. LEXIS 1824

About this case

Bartkus v. Illinois

Bartkus v. Illinois, 359 U.S. 121 (1959), is a decision of the U.S. Supreme Court . The decision held that coordination of federal officials with state officials did not implicate the double jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution . It also held that a defendant may be acquitted of a federal crime and convicted of a state crime, even if those crimes share the same evidence, without violating the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment .

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**Bartkus v. Illinois **

The case established the dual sovereign exception to the Double Jeopardy Clause, enabling state and federal prosecutions for substantially similar events.

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How courts have described this case

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  • holding that “the cruelty of harassment by multiple prosecutions” can violate the Due Process clause of the Fifth Amendment
  • holding that “the cruelty of harassment by multiple prosecutions” can violate the Due Process clause of the Fifth Amendment
  • holding that a federal prosecution cannot “displace the reserved power of States over state offenses” and that the opposite result “would be in derogation of our federal system”
  • holding that a federal prosecution cannot \displace the reserved power of States over state offenses\ and that the opposite result \would be in derogation of our federal system\
  • holding that acquittal in state court didn’t bar prosecution by federal government for substantially same crime
  • holding that Fourteenth Amendment Due Process right of defendant acquitted in federal court of robbery of federally insured savings and loan association was not violated by subsequent state prosecution based on same acts

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Judges: Frankfurter, Black, Brennan, Douglas

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