Price v. Georgia

How courts have described this case

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• 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)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).