Court Opinion

ID: 9700175
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-25 21:15:00.374067+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:21:05.268966
License: Public Domain

ROBERTS, Justice,
concurring.
I join the Opinion of the Court and note that today’s decision is compelled both by statute, see Act of June 15, 1951, P.L. 585, § 1, 19 P.S. § 871 (1964), and the Constitution of the United States. See Burks v. United States, 437 U.S. 1, 98 S.Ct. 2141, 57 L.Ed.2d 1 (1978) (double jeopardy clause of Federal Constitution precludes retrial where Government presents insufficient evidence to sustain conviction); . Greene v. Massey, 437 U.S. 19, 98 S.Ct. 2151, 57 L.Ed.2d 15 (1978) (Burks applied to States).