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Supreme Court· 6/26/1998

Monge v. California

Citations

  • 524 U.S. 721
  • 118 S. Ct. 2246
  • 141 L. Ed. 2d 615
  • 1998 U.S. LEXIS 4218

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that the federal Double Jeopardy Clause does not apply to noncapital sentencing enhancement proceedings
  • holding that the Double Jeopardy Clause does not preclude retrial in the noncapital sentencing context where the original sentence was reversed because there was insufficient evidence to support a recidivism sentence enhancement
  • holding that the Double Jeopardy Clause does not preclude retrial in the noncapital sentencing context where the original sentence was reversed because there was insufficient evidence to support a recidivism sentence enhancement
  • concluding that the Double Jeopardy Clause does not apply in the non-capital sentencing context
  • holding that the Double Jeopardy Clause is not applicable to noncapital sen- fencing proceedings
  • holding that the double jeopardy clause does not apply to non-capital sentencing proceedings; the case involved a “three-strikes” sentencing enhancement where the State had failed to provide sufficient evidence to prove one of the predicate offenses

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Judges: Scalia, O'Connor, Rehnquist, Kennedy, Thomas, Breyer, Stevens, Scaula, Souter, Ginsburg

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