U.S. Supreme Court justices questioned whether prosecutors can retry a former Enron Corp. official on charges stemming from the accounting fraud that caused the energy-trading company’s 2001 collapse. F. Scott Yeager, a onetime business strategist for Enron’s broadband unit, contends ...

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Double jeopardy; robbery charges ED46436-01 State of Missouri, Respondent, v. Christopher X. Bohlen, Appellant Appeal From: St. Louis County Circuit Court Handdown Date: 3/3/2009 Opinion Author: Judge Patricia L. Cohen Opinion Vote: Judges Odenwald and Norton concur Introduction Christopher Bohlen ...

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Double jeopardy; robbery charges ED46436-01 State of Missouri, Respondent, v. Christopher X. Bohlen, Appellant Appeal From: St. Louis County Circuit Court Handdown Date: 3/3/2009 Opinion Author: Judge Patricia L. Cohen Opinion Vote: Judges Odenwald and Norton concur Introduction Christopher Bohlen ...

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(1)Where evidence showed that a defendant selected a particular bag of marijuana to sell to an informant and answered informant’s questions regarding the quantity and quality of the drug, the evidence was sufficient to find that the defendant knew the ...

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Where a defendant was charged and convicted of three counts of robbery, separating the robbery of the store manager for robbery of the store’s property and his own watch into two counts constituted double jeopardy, the failure of the defendant’s ...

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Where a defendant was convicted in federal court and then state court on charges of possessing the same machine guns, double jeopardy does not prohibit the prosecution under the principle of dual sovereignty. Judgment is affirmed. State v. George (MLW ...

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Where a defendant who pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography in Clay County was then charged with promoting child pornography in Platte County, the charges against the defendant arose from the same conduct, which was possession of the same file, ...

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