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Smith v. United States

Citations

  • 984 A.2d 196
  • 2009 D.C. App. LEXIS 606
  • 2009 WL 4327930

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  • “[O]ne cannot have an expectation of finality [protected by the Double Jeopardy Clause] where the court never had jurisdiction to render the sentence.”
  • Non-jurisdictional but inflexible “[c]laim-processing rules . . . assure relief to a party properly raising them, but do not compel the same result if the party forfeits them.”

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Judges: Washington, Blackburne-Rigsby, Newman

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