Supreme Court· 6/14/1995

Witte v. United States

Citations

515 U.S. 389
115 S. Ct. 2199
132 L. Ed. 2d 351
1995 U.S. LEXIS 4045

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United States v. Witte — U.S. Supreme Court case. This entry links to the full opinion in the CourtListener corpus.

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noting that a defendant “is punished, for double jeopardy purposes, only for the offense of which the defendant is convicted”
disputed practice is not \punishment for that conduct within the meaning of the Double Jeopardy Clause\
disputed practice is not “punishment for that conduct within the meaning of the Double Jeopardy Clause”
defendant in this case “is punished, for double jeopardy purposes, only for the offense of which the defendant is convicted”
no double jeopardy bar against consideration of uncharged conduct in imposition of guidelines enhancement
consideration of “relevant conduct” under Guidelines bears on character of offense of conviction and does not punish for different offense

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Judges: O'Connor, Rehnquist, Kennedy, Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer, Stevens, Scalia, Thomas

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