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Jones Vs. Thomas

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jun 19, 1989

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  1. United States Vs. Halper US Supreme Court · May 15, 1989
  2. Missouri Vs. Hunter US Supreme Court · Jan 19, 1983
  3. Morris Vs. Mathews US Supreme Court · Feb 26, 1986
  4. United States Vs. Difrancesco US Supreme Court · Dec 09, 1980
  5. North Carolina Vs. Pearce US Supreme Court · Jun 23, 1969
  6. U.S. 376 (1989) U.S. Supreme Court Jones v. Thomas
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  7. U.S. 376 (1989) Jones v. Thomas
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  8. that could have been imposed by law, he could not be required to serve the other. It held further that Morris v. Mathews
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  9. no more than prevent the sentencing court from prescribing greater punishment than the legislature intended. Missouri v. Hunter
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  10. it has been completed. Sentencing is not a game where a wrong move by a judge means immunity for the prisoner. Bozza v. United
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  11. year sentence to run first. The Missouri Court of Appeals affirmed respondent's conviction on direct appeal. State v. Thomas
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  12. had not intended to allow separate punishments under the felony murder statute. Page 491 U. S. 379 See State v. Morgan
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  13. State v. Olds
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  14. by the trial court's ruling, as his entire time of incarceration was credited against the life sentence. Thomas v. State
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  15. that, as a result of the Governor's commutation, respondent had legally satisfied the 15-year sentence. See State v. Cerny
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  16. went on, however, to hold that the double jeopardy violation could be cured under this Court's decision in Morris v. Mathews
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  17. same offense after acquittal, and against a second prosecution for the same offense after conviction. See, e.g., Ohio v. Johnson
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  18. imposed in a single proceeding. See North Carolina v. Pearce
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  19. the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits punishment in excess of that authorized by the legislature, see United States v. DiFrancesco
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  20. served under one sentence against the term of another has long been an accepted practice. See, e.g., North Carolina v. Pearce
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  21. two sentences may be cured by vacating the shorter of the two sentences, even where it has been completed. See Hardy v. Page
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  22. United States v. Leather
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  23. Bozza v. United
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  24. provided an absolute bar to multiple punishments in a single trial regardless of legislative intent, see Missouri v. Hunter
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  25. that the state court could not cure the double jeopardy violation through the alternative procedure approved in Morris v. Mathews
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  26. of felony murder based on the robbery. The second conviction violated the Double Jeopardy Clause. See, e.g., Harris v. Oklahoma
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  27. no legal significance. Because nonfelony murder is not the same offense as attempted robbery, see, e.g., Blockburger v. United
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  28. be no double jeopardy bar to punishing Thomas for that offense, even through a second full trial. The rule of Morris v. Mathews
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  29. growing out Page 491 U. S. 388 of a single criminal transaction be tried in one proceeding. See Ashe v. Swenson
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  30. a prosecutorial error after the jury has been impaneled permits the defendant to go off scot free. E.g., Downum v. United
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  31. armed robbery sentence could be imposed for the same crime. The Missouri Supreme Court has said not. See State v. Morgan
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  32. Ante at 491 U. S. 381 , quoting Missouri v. Hunter
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  33. multiple penalties, the penalties had been imposed (or would have been imposed) in a single proceeding. See Missouri v. Hunter
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  34. Ohio v. Johnson
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  35. legislature, was imposed in a later proceeding, we held that the Double Jeopardy Clause was a bar. In United States v. Halper
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  36. of a single proceeding focuses on whether the legislature actually authorized the cumulative punishment. See Ohio v. Johnson
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  37. in the original sentence. See id. at 449 U. S. 136 -137. We applied the same rule in Pennsylvania v. Goldhammer
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  38. United States v. Fogel
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  39. F.2d 77, 87 (1987) (Bork, J.). The principle enunciated in DiFrancesco also explains our decision in Bozza v. United
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  40. in the first instance. See 330 U.S. at 330 U. S. 166 , 330 U. S. 167 . See also United States v. Arrellano-Rios
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  41. United States v. Edmondson
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  42. that the State could not resentence or retry respondent for a nonjeopardy-barred lesser included offense, see Morris v. Mathews
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  43. U.S. Supreme Court Jones v. Thomas
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  44. State v. Thomas
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  45. See State v. Morgan
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  46. Thomas v. State
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  47. See State v. Cerny
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  48. See North Carolina v. Pearce
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  49. See Hardy v. Page
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  50. Harris v. Oklahoma
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