Stanley Sanders v. Michael F. Easley, Attorney General of the State of North Carolina R. C. Lee, Warden, Central Prison, Raleigh, North Carolina

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• noting that the question is not whether the state court has erred in our view, but whether the decision of the state court was contrary to or involved an unreasonable application of Supreme Court law
• at the “extreme” end of the spectrum when double jeopardy applies “are situations in which the prosecution seeks a mistrial in order to have additional time to marshal evidence to strengthen the case against the defendant”
• at the \extreme\ end of the spectrum when double jeopardy applies \are situations in which the prosecution seeks a mistrial in order to have additional time to marshal evidence to strengthen the case against the defendant\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).