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Supreme Court· 6/15/1970

Price v. Georgia

Citations

  • 398 U.S. 323
  • 90 S. Ct. 1757
  • 26 L. Ed. 2d 300
  • 1970 U.S. LEXIS 22

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that jeopardy is not terminated where a conviction is reversed on appeal by the defendant
  • holding that where jury was -19- instructed on both a greater offense and lesser-included offense and the jury convicted on the lesser-included offense, the double jeopardy provision prohibited retrial on the greater offense
  • explaining that the Ball Court “effectively formulated a concept of continuing jeopardy that has application where criminal proceedings against an accused have not run their full course.”
  • refusing to apply harmless error review to violation of a defendant's double jeopardy right
  • noting with approval the continuing jeopardy rationale for the Ball doctrine
  • jury impliedly acquitted defendant of murder by convicting of lesser included manslaughter offense (quoting Green, 355 U.S. at 191)

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Judges: Burger, Blackmun

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