Carter Oil Co. v. Scott

How courts have described this case

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• holding that retrial is permitted after a conviction is reversed unless the reversal was based on insufficient evidence
• holding that retrial is permitted after a conviction is reversed unless the reversal was based on insufficient evidence
• stating that the Arkansas Supreme Court upheld a jury’s finding that terroristic threatening was a violent felony under state law for the purposes of a statutory aggravating circumstance in a capital murder case
• “ Tn determining whether a reversal was based on evidentiary sufficiency [for double jeopardy purposes], we must rely on the reasons of the reversing court, whether state or federal.’ ”
• \It is clear that the Constitution permits retrial after a conviction is reversed because of a defect in the charging instrument.\ (quoting Hall, 481 U.S. at 404) (internal quotation marks omitted)

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