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sister projects: Wikipedia article, Wikidata itemAshe v. Swenson, 397 U.S. 436 (1970), was a decision by the United States Supreme Court, which held that "when an issue of ultimate fact has once been determined by a valid and final judgment, that issue cannot again be litigated between the same parties in any future lawsuit." The Double Jeopardy Clause prevents a state from relitigating a question already decided in favor of a defendant at a previous trial. Here, the guarantee against double jeopardy enforceable through the Fourteenth Amendment provided that the government could not prosecute the criminal defendant in a second trial as it related to a different victim but the same robbery the criminal defendant was acquitted of in the first trial.
United States Supreme Court
Ashe v. Swenson
Argued: Nov. 13, 1969. --- Decided: April 6, 1970
Clark M. Clifford, Washington, D.C., for petitioner.
Gene E. Voigts, Jefferson City, Mo., for respondent.
Mr. Justice STEWART delivered the opinion of the Court.
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).
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