People v. Aleman

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing an exception to double jeopardy bar of appellate review of acquittal where trial proceedings are a “sham” or otherwise infected with fraud or collusion
• defining “sham trial” as one that “results in an acquittal because the State does not submit evidence”
• notice of appeal was not proper at a particular stage of the proceedings, so it did not divest the trial court of jurisdiction
• jeopardy did not attach, because the defendant's acquittal was procured through bribery of the trial judge, which meant that the defendant was never \subject to the risk normally associated with a criminal prosecution\
• jeopardy did not attach, because the defendant’s acquittal was procured through bribery of the trial judge, which meant that the defendant was never “subject to the risk normally associated with a criminal prosecution”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).