Graven v. Children's Home R.T.F., Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• recognizing that double jeopardy “can be waived by counsel”
• finding evidence that defendant sold drugs the month before and day of arrest admissible to show intent
• “[A] court may not allow in evidence of prior acts to show that the defendant is ‘the kind of person who would do such a thing.’”
• “[T]he trial judge when declaring a mistrial did not use the words ‘manifest necessity,’ but they are neither magic nor necessary when sufficient justification appears in the record.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).