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· 12/4/1978

Harriet Marie Jackson v. Victor G. Walker, Warden, Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women

Citations

  • 585 F.2d 139
  • 1978 U.S. App. LEXIS 7324

How courts have described this case

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

  • Pearce and Blackledge apply when a defendant is successful on appeal in overturning his state criminal conviction
  • “[T]he sine qua non of a prosecutorial vindictiveness claim is that the second charge is in fact harsher than the first.”
  • overall circumstances of the case presented a “remote” likelihood of prosecutorial vindictiveness

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Judges: Cowen, Claims, Goldberg, Ainsworth

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