Bartkus v. Illinois, No. 1 (U.S. Supreme Court) (359 U.S. 121; 79 S.Ct. 676) (March 30, 2059) (Justice Frankfurter)
In this case, an equally divided Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the lower court which held that a second prosecution of the petitioner by the State of Illinois, after he had already been acquitted of the same charges in a Federal prosecution, did not violate the Double Jeopardy Clause. ...
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