United States v. James M. Griffin

How courts have described this case

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• affirming denial of petition to vacate or set aside sentence in part because defendant failed to raise multiplicity claim pretrial
• “When the cause and prejudice standard is applied, the defendant must satisfy both the cause and prejudice elements.”
• double jeopardy not violated by charges for possession of packages of cocaine stored separately in defendant’s pocket and in his car
• no double jeopardy violation where two convictions were based on cocaine found on defendant’s person and in car where drugs were of different quantity and quality
• defendant who failed to include multiplicity claim in original appeal was “barred from bringing that issue in a § 2255 petition unless he [could] demonstrate good cause for his failure to appeal the issue”
• addressing possession of cocaine under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).