Criminal
Dec. 6, 2016
Behind the ruling in first merits decision
The Supreme Court's first merits decision of this term is important for the larger picture that it points out: inconsistency in our legal system. By Robert Weisberg
As usual, the U.S Supreme Court's first merits decision of the year was unanimous. And one might therefore infer that in Bravo-Fernandez v. United States, 2016 DJDAR 11723 (Nov. 29, 2016), the court was not the least bit ambivalent about the double jeopardy issue in the case. I would suggest rather that the court was unanimous precisely in its view that we have to accept the unavoidable ambivalence of our overall legal ...
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