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York v. Texas

Petition for certiorari denied on January 17, 2012
Docket No. Op. Below Argument Opinion Vote Author Term
11-397 Tex. Ct. Crim. App. N/A N/A N/A N/A OT 2011

Issue: Whether the doctrine of collateral estoppel, embodied in the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment and made applicable to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment, bars relitigation of a fact necessarily decided in the defendant’s favor in an initial prosecution, when that fact is deemed evidentiary in nature in a subsequent prosecution.

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