United States Ex Rel. Rutz v. Levy

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• holding that a commissioners’ decision in a removal hearing is not given res judicata effect, but may be persuasive in a second removal hearing
• principles of double jeopardy “are not implicated” before the point at which jeopardy attaches
• “[T]he discharge of an accused person upon a preliminary examination for want of probable cause constitutes no bar to a subsequent preliminary examination before another magistrate. Such an examination is not a trial in any sense and does not operate to put the defendant in jeopardy.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).