Bartkus v. Illinois

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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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