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Sattazahn v. Pennslyvania, No. 01-7574 (U.S. Supreme Court) (537 U.S. 101; 123 S.Ct. 732) (January 14, 2003) (Justice Scalia)

Here a divided Court held that a state-mandated entry of a life sentence imposed after a jury deadlock, measured against the Double Jeopardy Clause, does not block retrial of the death penalty, because the life sentence was not an acquittal on the merits.

Divided along its now familiar ideological lines, ...

 

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