· 12/22/1992
Steven Satter v. Walter Leapley, Warden, South Dakota State Penitentiary Roger Tellinghuisen, Attorney General
Citations
- 977 F.2d 1259
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- stating that retrial is not barred where first jeopardy has not been terminated and retrial is merely a continuing jeopardy
- \Any challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence to convict in a state prosecution is necessarily a due process challenge to the conviction.\
- “Any challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence to convict in a state prosecution is necessarily a due process challenge to the conviction.”
- “A claim that a state prosecution will violate the Double Jeopardy Clause presents an exception to the general rule of Younger v. Harris, 401 U.S. 37, 91 S.Ct. 746, 27 L.Ed.2d 669 (1971), that federal courts abstain from interfering with state criminal proceedings.”
- discussing pre-trial double jeopardy claims
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Judges: Beam, Heaney, Loken
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