66 Cited authorities

  1. Burks v. United States

    437 U.S. 1 (1978)   Cited 3,833 times   3 Legal Analyses
    Holding the trial court is "not to weigh the evidence or assess the credibility of witnesses when it judges the merits of a motion for acquittal"
  2. Dowling v. United States

    493 U.S. 342 (1990)   Cited 2,117 times   5 Legal Analyses
    Holding that admission of evidence must be fundamentally unfair to constitute a due process violation
  3. People v. Carmony

    33 Cal.4th 367 (Cal. 2004)   Cited 3,242 times
    Holding that the Court of Appeal erred in reversing a trial court's ruling denying a request to strike prior convictions because the appellate court "simply disagreed with the [trial] court's weighing of [the relevant] factors"
  4. Illinois v. Vitale

    447 U.S. 410 (1980)   Cited 963 times
    Holding that a defendant's conviction of a lesser included offense prohibits prosecution on a greater offense, and vice-versa, because the greater and lesser offenses are the "same offense" for double jeopardy purposes
  5. United States v. Martin Linen Supply Co.

    430 U.S. 564 (1977)   Cited 1,080 times   4 Legal Analyses
    Holding "appeals by the Government from . . . judgments of acquittal" entered under Rule 29 are authorized by 18 U.S.C. § 3731 "unless barred by the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Constitution"
  6. United States v. Wilson

    420 U.S. 332 (1975)   Cited 911 times
    Holding that the underlying premise of double jeopardy was "that a defendant should not be twice tried or punished for the same offense"
  7. Pinkerton v. United States

    328 U.S. 640 (1946)   Cited 2,732 times   8 Legal Analyses
    Holding one conspirator may be found guilty of foreseeable substantive offenses committed by his coconspirators in furtherance of the conspiracy
  8. Sanabria v. United States

    437 U.S. 54 (1978)   Cited 775 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that Blockburger test did not apply to violation of a single statute
  9. Hudson v. Louisiana

    450 U.S. 40 (1981)   Cited 663 times
    Holding that, when the record clearly shows that a motion for new trial was granted based on legally insufficient evidence, and not because the trial court acted as a proverbial "13th juror," a retrial is barred by double jeopardy
  10. People v. Thompson

    49 Cal.4th 79 (Cal. 2010)   Cited 821 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Finding that juror declarations did not indicate a refusal to deliberate where the declarations failed to "present examples of objective failure to deliberate, such as jurors who turned their backs or otherwise objectively segregated themselves from deliberations"