Court Opinion

ID: 9593303
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 00:21:23.613081+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:01:19.990100
License: Public Domain

LUMPKIN, Vice-Presiding Judge,
specially concurring.
I compliment the Court on its thorough analysis of the issues presented regarding the constitutional protections against double jeopardy and join in the decision rendered. The correctness of the decision is reflected in the recent United States Supreme Court decision in United States v. Felix, — U.S. —, 112 S.Ct. 1377, 118 L.Ed.2d 25 (1992). The Court has also appropriately noted that issues of double jeopardy must be analyzed based on whether the case involves multiple punishments in the same prosecution or successive prosecutions arising from the same acts. Too often lawyers and courts fail to discern the appropriate rule of construction because they fail to first determine which protection is involved, based on the facts of the case. Thus, the analysis may be skewed when attempts are made to analyze a successive prosecution case based on caselaw defining multiple punishment restrictions, and vice versa. The Court in this opinion has sought to provide the bench and bar with a succinct compendium of authority detailing the analysis which must take place in determining the applicable authority based on the facts presented.