Poretta v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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• “Following the [Supreme] Court’s ruling in Dinitz, there can be no doubt that the Federal Constitution does not condition the permissibility of retrial on the defendant’s personal, explicit assent to a mistrial motion brought by his attorney.”
• claim of double jeopardy subject to ordinary waiver

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).