Breed v. Jones

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a delinquency proceeding places a juvenile in jeopardy for purposes of the Double Jeopardy Clause
• holding that a delinquency proceeding places a juvenile in jeopardy for purposes of the Double Jeopardy Clause
• holding that even though second trial has been held, petitioner was entitled to habeas relief
• holding that the prosecution of a defendant as an adult in state court, after an adjudicatory proceeding in juvenile court, violated double jeopardy
• holding that double jeopardy does not apply unless the punishment is “essentially criminal” (emphasis added)
• holding that the prosecution of a defendant as an adult in state court, after an adjudicatory proceeding in juvenile court, violated double jeopardy

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).