D.C. Circuit· 7/17/1975

United States v. Ronald Shepard

Citations

515 F.2d 1324
169 U.S. App. D.C. 353
1975 U.S. App. LEXIS 13657

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holding that the government “is not as a general principle prevented from simultaneously charging in one indictment offenses under similar federal and D.C. statutes arising out of a single transaction”
“[T]he double jeopardy clause of the fifth amendment will bar separate prosecutions under the federal and D.C. statutes for the same offense, i.e., where the offenses are identical or where one offense is a lesser included offense of the other.”
Slip op. at 65 n. 176
Slip op. at 65 n. 176

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Judges: Bazelon, Robinson, MacKinnon

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