Court Opinion

ID: 9426225
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:17:10.123161+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:22:59.648881
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Mr. Justice Brennan
agrees that “[w]here the State is precluded by the United States Constitution from haling a defendant into court on a charge, federal law requires that a conviction on that charge be set aside even if the conviction was entered pursuant to a counseled plea of guilty,” ante, at 62, but on his view that the Double Jeopardy Clause bars the prosecution from mounting successive prosecutions for offenses growing out of the same criminal transaction, he believes that the proper disposition of the case is not a remand but outright reversal. See Ashe v. Swenson, 397 U. S. 436, 453-454 (1970) (Brennan, J., concurring).
The Chiee Justice and Mr. Justice Rehnquist would grant the petition for a writ of certiorari and set the case for oral argument.