Watt v. Bryan

How courts have described this case

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• affirming denial of plea in bar based on double jeopardy grounds, because “although the need for a retrial was arguably a 8 foreseeable consequence of the trial court’s actions during the initial trial, no evidence suggests that retrial was an intended consequence of the misconduct”
• “In the context of a granted motion for mistrial, governmental misconduct will support a plea in bar based on double jeopardy if the prosecutor or trial judge intended to goad the defendant into moving for a mistrial.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).