Serfass v. United States

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• holding that jeopardy had not attached when district court dismissed the indictment because petitioner had not been put to trial
• holding that a former jeopardy must have attached before the Double Jeopardy Clause is implicated
• holding that jeopardy attaches in a court trial when the judge “begins to hear evidence”
• holding that, “[i]n a nonjury trial, jeopardy attaches when the court begins to hear evidence”
• recognizing that, when a criminal prosecution is terminated prior to trial, the defendant is spared expense, delay, strain and embarrassment that attend a trial
• holding that Double Jeopardy Clause did not bar appeal by government from pretrial order dismissing indictment because jeopardy had not yet attached as petitioner had not yet been put to trial before factfinder

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