John Henry Skillern v. State

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• determining that a defendant sentenced to death following nonunanimous jury recommendations \has not been acquitted of the death penalty\ when the law at the time of trial would have permitted a death sentence, such that retrial is not barred by double jeopardy
• determining that a defendant sentenced to death following nonunanimous jury recommendations “has not been acquitted of the death penalty” when the law at the time of trial would have permitted a death sentence, such that retrial is not barred by double jeopardy
• finding meritless the claim that because jury recommendations for the death penalty were not unanimous, the defendant was \acquitted\ of the death penalty such that the prohibition against double jeopardy prevented him from being eligible for a death sentence on retrial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).