Mertens v. Kielmann

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that double jeopardy bars reprosecution when State nol prosses original complaint after jeopardy attached
• barring subsequent retrial where State nol prossed after trial began and jeopardy had attached
• determining whether manifest necessity standard met requires weighing prosecution’s and defendant’s competing interests
• after not pros of “knowingly” indictment, grand jury “corrected] the mens rea to ‘purposely’”
• nol pros removes case from court’s consideration

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).