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Monge Vs. California

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Apr 28, 1998

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  7. U.S. 721 (1998) October Term, 1997 Syllabus Monge V. California
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  8. plurality holding that the Double Jeopardy Clause, though applicable in the capital sentencing context, see Bullington v. Missouri
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  9. Nor can sentencing determinations generally be analogized to an acquittal. See United States v. DiFrancesco
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  10. to a capital sentencing scheme in which a judge made the original determination to impose a life sentence. See Arizona v. Rumsey
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  11. that Bullington's rationale is confined to the unique circumstances of a capital sentencing proceeding, Gaspari v. Bohlen
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  12. cited Bullington as an example of the heightened procedural protections accorded capital defendants, Strickland v. Washington
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  13. whether the Double Jeopardy Clause, which we have found applicable in the capital sentencing context, see Bullington v. Missouri
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  14. Tennessee, Dan Morales of Texas, William H. Sorrell of Vermont, Mark L. Earley of Virginia, Darrell V. McGraw
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  15. confined to the unique circumstances of capital cases. See 16 Cal. 4th, at 836-837, 941 P. 2d, at 1128 (citing Gaspari v. Bohlen
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  16. a conflict among the state courts as to Bullington's application to noncapital sentencing. Compare, e. g., State v. Hennings
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  17. Wash. 2d 379, 670 P. 2d 256 (1983), with People v. Levin
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  18. Ill. 2d 138, 623 N. E. 2d 317 (1993). Prior to this Court's determination that the nonretroactivity rule of Teague v. Lane
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  19. Gaspari, supra, the Federal Courts of Appeals had reached disparate conclusions as well. Compare, e. g., Briggs v. Procunier
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  20. F.2d 368 , 371 (CA5 1985), with Denton v. Duckworth
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  21. after acquittal or conviction and against multiple criminal punishments for the same offense. See North Carolina v. Pearce
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  22. see, e. g., Nichols v. United
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  23. see also Witte v. United
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  24. cf. Moore v. Missouri
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  25. SCALIA acknowledges, post, at 741, that his argument is squarely foreclosed by our decision in Almendarez-Torres v. United
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  26. simultaneously profess his innocence of a drug offense and dispute the amount of drugs allegedly involved. Cf. Gregg v. Georgia
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  27. guilt, that finding is comparable to an acquittal, and the Double Jeopardy Clause precludes a second trial. See Burks v. United
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  28. see also Stroud v. United
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  29. to the general rule that double jeopardy principles have no application in the sentencing context. See Schiro v. Farley
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  30. in which the judge, as opposed to a jury, had initially determined that a life sentence was appropriate. See Arizona v. Rumsey
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  31. id., at 357, we have recognized an acute need for reliability in capital sentencing proceedings. See Lockett v. Ohio
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  32. see also Strickland v. Washington
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  33. the central concerns animating the constitutional prohibition against double jeopardy. As the Court explained in Green v. United
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  34. U. S., at 441 (quoting Addington v. Texas
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  35. of the proceeding. For example, petitioner notes that Bullington did not overrule the Court's decision in Stroud v. United
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  36. at issue did not bear the hallmarks of a trial on guilt or innocence. Stroud predates our decisions in Furman v. Georgia
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  37. U. S. 238 (1972) (per curiam), and Gregg v. Georgia
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  38. Woodson v. North
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  39. Burks v. United
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  40. the evidence and legal errors that infect the first proceeding.4 In his unanimous 1 See also, e. g., Poland v. Arizona
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  41. cf. Schiro v. Farley
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  42. a) (West 1991). This case, then, is factually different from Gaspari v. Bohlen
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  43. of course, that this determination was made by an appellate court rather than by the trial judge or jury. Burks v. United
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  44. The federal statute specifies that the 736 opinion for the Court in Burks v. United
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  45. of fundamental fairness that produced decisions such as In re Winship, 397 U. S. 358 (1970),6 and Mullaney v. Wilbur
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  46. Bozza v. United
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  47. cases cited in Almendarez-Torres v. United
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  48. whom JUSTICE SOUTER and JusTICE GINSBURG join, dissenting. I agree with the Court's determination that Bullington v. Missouri
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  49. down the road the Court follows today. It was the Court's decision in McMillan v. Pennsylvania
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  50. see Block burger v. United
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