· 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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