";s:4:"text";s:40602:"The distinction between believing successive prosecutions by separate sovereigns unjust and holding them unlawful appears right on the face of the first state case that Gamble discusses. Indeed, two of those cases manifested nothing more than a misreading of a then-recent decision of ours. The Federalist No. ); post, at 8–9 (opinion of Gorsuch, J.). . NACo maintains that removing the dual sovereignty doctrine will promote competition between state and federal governments over the ability to prosecute. The silver-platter doctrine was based on the fact that the state searches to which it applied did not at that time violate federal law. Together with their editor and coauthor, Bryan A. Garner, the judges have thoroughly researched and explored the many intricacies of the doctrine as it guides the work of American lawyers and judges. The issue before the Supreme Court in that matter was similar—whether § 1962(d) applied to a defendant who had It comes to us on writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. 304 U.S. 64, 78 (1938). The private intent behind a drafter’s rejection of one version of a text is shoddy evidence of the public meaning of an altogether different text. Found insideThe Law of Evidence in the District of Columbia has been a practice staple in the District of Columbia courts for more than 30 years. Cal. But see Lawrence, supra, at 577 (asserting that not overruling precedent would “caus[e] uncertainty”). at 95. Id. Generalizing from this point, we declared in a second case that “the same act might, as to its character and tendencies, and the consequences it involved, constitute an offence against both the State and Federal governments, and might draw to its commission the penalties denounced by either, as appropriate to its character in reference to each.” United States v. Marigold, 9 How. The Government counters that the text of the Constitution, historical context, and a long line of affirmative precedent support preservation of the exception. 556 U.S. 778, 792–793 (2009). Argued December 6, 2018—Decided June 17, 2019. Rep. 1172 (K. B. The founding generation foresaw very limited potential for overlapping criminal prosecutions by the States and the Federal Government. Absent any clear structural justification for successive prosecutions, incorporation suggests that the federal government and states “should not be allowed to do in tandem what neither could do alone.”104×104. No direct report of the case exists, however, and later accounts suggest that Hutchinson was “spared retrial as a matter of discretion” rather than law.33×33. In the end, then, it’s hard to see how anyone consulting the common law in 1791 could have avoided this conclusion: While the issue may not have arisen often, the great weight of authority indicated that successive prosecutions by different sovereigns—even sovereigns as foreign to each other as England and Portugal—were out of bounds. 966; Debs v. United States, . Gamble then pleaded guilty to the federal offense while preserving his right to challenge the denial of his motion to dismiss on double jeopardy grounds. Thus, where there are two sovereigns, there are two laws and two “offences.” Gamble attempts to show from the Clause’s drafting history that Congress must have intended to bar successive prosecutions regardless of the sovereign bringing the charge. Fifth Amendment’s ratification. The decision expanded the Fourth Amendment's protections from the right of search and seizures of an individual's "persons, houses, papers, and effects . Indeed, at least one modern scholar agrees (on other grounds as well) that the result in Hutchinson may have been based on “expediency rather than law.” M. Friedland, Double Jeopardy 362–363 (1969). And when “far-reaching systemic and structural changes” make an “earlier error all the more egregious and harmful,” stare decisis can lose its force. So where there are two sovereigns, there are two laws, and two ‘offences.’ ” Ante, at 3–4. Alito, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Roberts, C. J., and Thomas, Breyer, Sotomayor, Kagan, and Kavanaugh, JJ., joined. Dictionarium Britannicum (N. Bailey ed. By Timothy D. Naegele. . As observed by Justice Harlan, Elkins’ abandonment of a separate-sovereigns exception to the exclusionary rule was at odds with retention of the separate-sovereigns doctrine for double jeopardy purposes in Abbate and Bartkus. All told, this evidence does not establish that those who ratified the First, it squarely rejects the proposition that a litigant in an English court—even a civil litigant in equity—had a right to the benefit of a foreign judgment, a right that the 16-00090, 2016 WL 3460414, at *1–2 (S.D. The Government lastly argues against the contention that the expansion of federal criminal law justifies a departure from stare decisis. See Braun, supra, at 20–23. of Justice, Justice Manual §9–2.031(A) (rev. Justia Annotations is a forum for attorneys to summarize, comment on, and analyze case law published on our site. it could instead have addressed its structural overbreadth. Gamble moved to dismiss, arguing that the federal indictment was for “the same offence” as the one at issue in his state conviction, thus exposing him to double jeopardy under the Marbury, 1 Cranch, at 177; Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, . This new “age of ‘cooperative federalism,’ [in which] the Federal and State Governments are waging a united front against many types of criminal activity,” Murphy, 378 U. S., at 55–56, provides new opportunities for federal and state prosecutors to “join together to take a second bite at the apple,” All Assets of G.P.S. The Supreme Court Upholds the Separate Sovereigns Doctrine in Gamble v. United States. According to the complaint, Gamble was injured on November 9, 1973, when a bale of cotton3 fell on him while he was unloading a truck. “[C]ommon law doctrines, as articulated by judges, were seen as principles that had been discovered rather than new laws that were being made.” 3–4 G. White, The Marshall Court and Cultural Change, 1815–35, History of the Supreme Court of the United States 129 (1988). 1 Keb. R. Bonner, Lawyers and Litigants in Ancient Athens 195 (1927). See G. Squibb, The High Court of Chivalry 54, 147–148 (1959) (Squibb); 4 Blackstone 267. The Court does not seriously defend the “legal fiction” of substantive due process as consistent with the original understanding of the Due Process Clause. For all these reasons, while stare decisis warrants respect, it has never been “ ‘an inexorable command,’ ”[73] and it is “at its weakest when we interpret the Constitution.”[74] In deciding whether one of our cases should be retained or overruled, this Court has traditionally considered “the quality of the decision’s reasoning; its consistency with related decisions; legal developments since the decision; and reliance on the decision.”[75] Each of these factors, I believe, suggests we should reject the separate sovereigns exception. They seemed to be evenly split and to “manifest conflict[s] in conscience” rather than confident conclusions about the common law. Reply of petitioner Terance Gamble filed. Fifth Amendment’s seemingly plain command? 1973)). The Experts argue that reversing the Eleventh Circuit will encourage sovereigns to spend more time drafting laws that focus more specifically on the goals of each sovereign to avoid potential double jeopardy conflicts. Nor has only the law changed; the world has too. And anyone familiar with the American federal system likely would have thought the rule applied with even greater force to successive prosecutions by the United States and a constituent State, given that both governments derive their sovereignty from the American people. at 1999. T. H., at 271, 27 Eng. Abbate v. United States, 359 U.S. 187, 195 (1959). Id. 8 ch. The last time we looked, we found these state cases to be “inconclusive.” Bartkus, 359 U. S., at 131. Instead, the people, by adopting the Constitution, “ ‘split the atom of sovereignty.’ ” Alden v. Maine, Those powers are vested in the President and Congress, respectively. The Constitution tasks the political branches—not the Judiciary—with systematically developing the laws that govern our society. See United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co., 200 U. S. 321, 337. But when the people adopted the Constitution and its Bill of Rights, they thought the liberties promised there worth the costs. Knapp v. Schweitzer, 501 U.S. 808, 827 (1991). The Government claims that though the Court has stated that successive prosecutions might be barred where one sovereign acts only as a tool of the other, cooperation between federal and state authorities in achieving their shared interest of criminal prosecution does not rise to this level. The book is essential reading for anyone concerned about the proper role of the judiciary. We doubt it. Because petitioner and the dissenting opinions have not shown that the Court’s dual-sovereignty doctrine is incorrect, much less demonstrably erroneous, I concur in the majority’s opinion. The separate-sovereigns doctrine’s persistence contrasts with the fate of analogous dual-sovereignty doctrines following application of the rights at issue to the States. ante, at 4–5. III, §1. v. GAMBLE [6] CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT [7] . Gamble notes a number of English cases that support this proposition, and points to similar early United States Supreme Court holdings, such as Houston v. Moore, in which the Court held that prosecution of a defendant by either of two courts with concurrent jurisdiction would bar prosecution by the other. I would not cling to those ill-advised decisions. So the prior trial in Thomas was not under another sovereign’s laws, making it totally irrelevant for present purposes. [2] The first Congress, working on an earlier draft that would have banned “ ‘more than one trial or one punishment for the same offence,’ ” voted down a proposal to add “ ‘by any law of the United States.’ ” 1 Annals of Cong. of Oral Arg. Stopping the interpretive inquiry short—or allowing personal views to color it—permits courts to substitute their own preferences over the text. [4] That removes most (if not all) of the force that stare decisis held in the English common-law system, where judicial precedents were among the only documents identifying the governing “customs” or “rules and maxims.” Blackstone 68. That is a peculiar way to look at the Double Jeopardy Clause, which by its terms safeguards the “person” and restrains the government. Together with the muddle in the early state cases, this undermines Gamble’s claim that the early American bench and bar took the See supra, at 2–4. 1399. Founding-era treatises “recited the Hutchinson rule as black letter law,”68×68. See, e.g., id., at 155; United States v. All Assets of G.P.S. “Fear and abhorrence of governmental power to try people twice for the same conduct is one of the oldest ideas found in western civilization.”[1] Throughout history, people have worried about the vast disparity of power between governments and individuals, the capacity of the state to bring charges repeatedly until it wins the result it wants, and what little would be left of human liberty if that power remained unchecked. [39] And prosecutions in one of these places pretty plainly barred subsequent prosecutions for the same offense in the others. But that impression is shattered by the next sentence: “Not so with the crime of murder.” Ibid. In our “compound republic,” the division of authority between the United States and the States was meant to operate as “a double security [for] the rights of the people.” The Federalist No. According to the complaint, Gamble was injured on November 9, 1973, when a bale of cotton3 fell on him while he was unloading a truck. Rep., at 827. Gamble moved to dismiss on one ground: The federal indictment was for “the same offence” as the one at issue in his state conviction and thus exposed him to double jeopardy. . In his assenting opinion given in Gamble v. United States last year, a case not directly to abortion, Thomas took the opportunity to discuss that legal concept. at 1981, 1984. The Eleventh Circuit affirmed. the United States Tax Court. has always applied whether the previous conviction or acquittal based on the same facts was by an English court or by a foreign court.”[51] The Court today asks us to assume that all these legal authorities misunderstood the common law’s ancient rule. with the fate of analogous dual-sovereignty doctrines” post-incorporation.58×58. The doctrinal change, incorporation of the Double Jeopardy Clause in 1969, simply applied the Court’s interpretation of the clause against the states.41×41. A. Rev., at 687, n. 181. As I have previously explained, “[m]y vision of the process of judging is unabashedly based on the proposition that there are right and wrong answers to legal questions.” Thomas, Judging, 45 U. Kan. L. Rev. In adopting the Constitution, the people “‘split the atom of sovereignty.’”21×21. And if both manage to succeed, so much the better; they can add one punishment on top of the other. While drawing upon dicta from prior opinions, the Court gave short shrift to contrary authority. And the federal prosecutor can pursue you even if you were acquitted in the state case. Const., Art. (quoting United States v. Marigold, 50 U.S. (9 How.) Perhaps the only early state-law discussion that truly supports the Court’s position is dicta in an 1834 Virginia decision. at 123); see also Braun, supra note 77, at 60–65. In our constitutional structure, our role of upholding the law’s original meaning is reason enough to correct course.[6]. Because of a felony conviction for second-degree robbery seven years prior, Alabama prosecuted Gamble for being a felon in possession of a pistol under Ala. Code § 13A-11-72(a), which prohibits anyone who has been convicted of a violent offense from possessing a firearm. . Stare decisis has many virtues, but when it comes to enforcing the Constitution this Court must take (and always has taken) special care in the doctrine’s application. In prosecutions based on the same conduct, federal and state prosecutors will often charge offenses having different elements, charges that, under Blockburger, will not trigger double jeopardy protection. Readers are requested to notify the Reporter of Decisions, Supreme Court of the United States, Washington, D. C. 20543, of any typographical or other formal errors, in order that corrections may be made before the preliminary print goes to press. Al- though the dual-sovereignty rule is often dubbed an “exception” to the double jeopardy right, it is not an exception at all. 694 Fed. E.g., Bartkus, 359 U. S., at 127; Lanza, 260 U. S., at 382; cf. Supreme Court reaffirms the dual-sovereignty doctrine; the double jeopardy rights of a defendant were not violated when he was prosecuted by both the state and the federal government for possession of a firearm as a felon. 17-646, 587 U.S. ___ (2019), was a United States Supreme Court case about the separate sovereignty exception to the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which allows both federal and state prosecution of the same crime as the governments are "separate sovereigns".Terance Martez Gamble was prosecuted under both state and . Thus Houston v. Moore can be cited only for the presence of a bar in a case in which the second trial is for a violation of the very statute whose violation by the same conduct has already been tried in the courts of an- other government empowered to try that question.” Bartkus, 359 U. S., at 130 (citations omitted). 560, 569 (1850). 355 U.S. 184, 187–188 (1957). They suggest that because the division of federal and state power was meant to promote liberty, it cannot support a rule that exposes Gamble to a second sentence. But the historical evidence assembled by Gamble is feeble; pointing the other way are the Clause’s text, other historical evidence, and 170 years of precedent. This thread tying Blackstone to Hutchinson—a thread woven through footnotes and reports of reports but not a single statement by a court (or even by a party to an actual prosecution)—is tenuous evidence that Blackstone endorsed Gamble’s reading of Hutchinson. The Court had never before sought “to ascertain the intent of the Framers in this area.” Heath v. Alabama, 474 U.S. 82, 98 n.1 (1985) (Marshall, J., dissenting). Ill effects of the doctrine might once have been tempered by the limited overlap between federal and state criminal law. (“NACo”), in support of the United States, argues that reversing the Eleventh Circuit could be detrimental to defendants because many states that currently provide statutory double jeopardy protections would likely revisit their standards to ensure that they do not lose their authority to prosecute, which could result in defendants being tried for the same act more often. at 814.). Akhil Reed Amar & Jonathan L. Marcus, Double Jeopardy Law After Rodney King, 95 Colum. See, e.g., id. See Elkins, 364 U. S., at 213 (“The foundation upon which the admissibility of state-seized evidence in a federal trial originally rested—that unreasonable state searches did not violate the Federal Constitution—thus disappeared [with incorporation]”). Id. Id. at 1990 (Ginsburg, J., dissenting). Justification for the separate-sovereigns doctrine centers on the word “offence”: An “offence,” the argument runs, is the violation of a sovereign’s law, the United States and each State are separate sovereigns, ergo successive state and federal prosecutions do not place a defendant in “jeopardy . 3 J. Isom, 580 F.3d 43, 52 (1st Cir. Gamble argues that the Court has always been amenable to overruling bad precedent in specific circumstances. NACo posits that eliminating the dual sovereignty exception will ultimately result is “turf wars” between the federal government and the states, and will ultimately harm the states’ ability to maintain peace within their territories. See Braun, supra note 77, at 74–75; Note, supra note 98, at 1562–63. Furthermore, the Experts assert that the second sovereign seeking to prosecute will still be able to “pursue its prosecution” if this case is reversed as long as federal and state statutes contain different elements because two statutes must have the same elements to be considered the same offense. None should survive close inspection. (emphasis added). Gamble points to a number of cases, including Elkins v. United States, in which the Court has recognized that the subsequent incorporation of constitutional provisions against the states justifies overruling decisions that were premised on the prior inapplicability of those provisions to the states. The Constitution, federal statutes, and treaties are the law, and the systematic development of the law is accomplished democratically. Audio Transcription for Opinion Announcement - February 20, 1974 in United States v. Kahn Warren E. Burger: Thank you Mr. Justice White. at 1970. Another treatise by William Hawkins likewise considered it “settled” as early as 1716 “[t]hat an Acquittal in any Court whatsoever, which has a Jurisdiction of the Cause, is as good a Bar of any subsequent Prosecution for the same Crime.”[32]. In other words, the common law was based in the collective, systematic development of the law through reason. Yet as suggested by the Court’s conclusion that his historical evidence fell short, an originalist mode of interpretation offers little guidance on a doctrine not settled at the Founding. Some suggest that “the federal government has [now] duplicated vir-tually every major state crime.”[96] Others estimate that the U. S. Code contains more than 4,500 criminal statutes, not even counting the hundreds of thousands of federal regulations that can trigger criminal penalties. comment (4th ed. A contrary rule would permit judges to “substitute their own pleasure” for the law. Fifth Amendment’s ratification in 1791 finds further confirmation in how later legal thinkers in both England and America described the rule they had inherited. The separate-sovereigns doctrine, however, scarcely shores up people’s rights. Rep. 326 (K. B. Although the law may be, on rare occasion, truly ambiguous—meaning susceptible to multiple, equally correct legal meanings—the law never “runs out” in the sense that a Court may adopt an interpretation beyond the bounds of permissible construction. Nor is there any doubt that the benefits the framers saw in prohibiting double prosecutions remain real, and maybe more vital than ever, today. See, e.g., Bartkus v. Illinois, 359 U.S. 121, 136 (1959); Lanza, 260 U.S. at 382. . Ibid. . 451–52, 782 (1789) (Joseph Gales ed., 1834). 30 Journals of the Continental Congress 440 (J. Fitzpatrick ed. Found insidePresents a collection of James Madison's letters, speeches, and other writings, including all of his contributions to The Federalist, early writings on religious freedom, and correspondence with other Founding Fathers 207, 212 (Mich. 1843), but those antebellum cases are poor images of the founding-era common law, resting as they do on what we have explained, see Bartkus, 359 U. S., at 130, was a misreading of our then-recent decision in Houston v. Moore, 5 Wheat. Argued December 6, 2018—Decided June 17, 2019 . In Lanza, Chief Justice Taft warned that, were a state to impose “nominal fines” for violating Prohibition, there would be a “race of offenders to the courts of that State to plead guilty and secure immunity from federal prosecution.”92×92. I. N. 2. but by a Constable and Marshal, and the Court refused to Bail him, & c.” Rex v. Hutchinson, 3 Keb. Id. And the strength of the case for adhering to such decisions grows in proportion to their “antiquity.” Montejo v. Louisiana, Justice Gorsuch filed a dissenting opinion, in which Chief Justice Roberts and Justice […] Because “the murder was committed in Portugal,” Gage argued, “the Court of King’s Bench could not indict him, and there was no method of trying him but upon a special commission.”[42] But no one else—not the treatise writers or the other English cases that favorably cited Hutchinson—adopted Gage’s restrictive reading of that precedent. for the same offence.” Ante, at 1, 3–4 (internal quotation marks omitted). Gamble begins with Blackstone, but he reads volumes into a flyspeck. Yes, you were sentenced to state prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. We consider in this case whether to overrule a The remaining office of the separate-sovereigns doctrine, then, is to enable federal and state prosecutors, proceeding one after the other, to expose defendants to double jeopardy. Gamble’s challenge was an originalist attack on the first premise, the sovereign-specific reading of “offence,” to which the Court responded in kind.78×78. in jeopardy of life or limb” for “the same offence” sought to carry the traditional common law rule into our Constitution. 1733, 12 L.Ed.2d 1030 (1964). 2 ch. On 17 June 2019, the United States Supreme Court delivered a 7-2 decision in Gamble v. United States,2 upholding its long-standing dual sovereignty doctrine under the double jeopardy clause of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Gamble v. United States, 587 U.S. ___ (2019) Justia Opinion Summary and Annotations. 274 U.S. 256 (1927); Hebert v. Louisiana, Under the Petite policy adopted by the Department of Justice,[5] the Department will pursue a federal prosecution “based on substantially the same act(s) or transaction(s)” previously prosecuted in state court only if the first prosecution left a “substantial federal interest . Id. Thus, Gamble contends, our precedent should yield to “ ‘far-reaching systemic and structural changes’ ” that make our “earlier error all the more egregious and harmful.” South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc., 585 U. S. ___, ___ (2018) (slip op., at 18). The ruling upholds the "separate sovereigns doctrine," which holds that a person can be charged with an offense by a state and the federal government because the two are considered separate powers by the federal nature of the U.S. See Elkins v. United States, The doctrine also goes by the name of the “dual-sovereignty” doctrine. Still, they are the only early judicial glosses on Hutchinson that we have, so we will work with them. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT . [7] In that regard, a legal text is not capable of multiple permissible interpretations merely because discerning its original meaning “requires a taxing inquiry.” Pauley v. BethEnergy Mines, Inc., J. L. & Pub. By applying demonstrably erroneous precedent instead of the relevant law’s text—as the Court is particularly prone to do when expanding federal power or crafting new individual rights—the Court exercises “force” and “will,” two attributes the People did not give it. And then we went on enforcing it, adding another six decades of cases to the doctrine’s history. With regard to that structure, Justice Gorsuch saw “the Wales example [as] at least somewhat analogous” — the Framers themselves compared the relationship between Wales, Scotland, and England to the federal system.70×70. I would not. This included a foundational case on which the others rested — the 1677 prosecution of a man named Hutchinson for a murder in Portugal.31×31. This book argues that the Constitution has a dual nature. In Edge Broadcasting the Court specifically upheld a ban on a radio station's advertisements for . See Nelson 11, 14. That is consistent with our doctrine allowing successive prosecutions for offenses against separate sovereigns. Gamble v. United States, 901 A.2d 159, 164 . T. H. 263, 27 Eng. 78, at 468 (“[I]t is the province of the courts to liquidate and fix [the] meaning and operation [of contradictory laws]”); The Federalist No. The separate sovereigns exception was wrong when it was invented, and it remains wrong today. But that support soft- ens just a few lines down in the report, where the Chan- cellor discusses the status of foreign judgments in courts of law in particular (as distinct from courts of equity like his own)—i.e., the courts that actually applied the common-law rules later codified by the Less useful still, for Gamble’s purposes, are the two early Supreme Court cases on which he relies. Id. 51, supra note 51, at 323 (James Madison) (alteration in original)). Here, even if we adopted the dissent's preferred approach, we would still find that Gardner had established a plausible reason for withdrawal based on the initial five factors -- in particular, the strength of the reason for withdrawal. If, as Gamble suggests, only one sovereign may prosecute for a single act, no American court—state or federal—could prosecute conduct already tried in a foreign court. Justice Alito delivered the opinion of the Court. The Court held that a person convicted of a crack offense is eligible for a sentence reduction under the First Step . In explaining why he would grant the injunction, Lord Chancellor King cited Hutchinson, which he thought had involved an acquittal in Spanish court that was “allowed to be a good bar to any proceedings here.” 2 Str., at 733, 93 Eng. it was not really much different than their decision in Whren v. United States, where the court, . The government's warrantless acquisition of Carpenter's cell-site records violated his Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable searches and seizures. 410; United States v. Marigold, 9 How. 284 U.S. 299 (1932). The Federalist No. The Court today follows Bartkus in distinguishing Justice Washington’s opinion as addressing only the “strange” situation in which a State has prosecuted an offense “against the United States.” Ante, at 24; see Bartkus, 359 U. S., at 130. 1509, 12 L.Ed.2d 723 (1964), to a factual situation whose basic characteristics have not been at all uncommon in recent search warrant cases. On November 29, 2015, a police officer in Alabama pulled over Terance Gamble for a faulty headlight. And as I have explained before, “this fiction is a particularly dangerous one” because it “lack[s] a guiding principle to distinguish ‘fundamental’ rights that warrant protection from nonfundamental rights that do not.” Ibid. On the government’s account, the fact that federal and state authorities split up the prosecutions makes all the difference. All Assets of G.P.S. Argued December 6, 2018—Decided June 17, 2019 Petitioner Gamble pleaded guilty to a charge of violating Alabama's felon-in-possession-of-a-firearm statute. L. Rev. Bartkus, 359 U. S., at 155 (Black, J., dissenting). (first quoting The Federalist No. Found insideDrawing on literatures from history, law, and political science, this is a fascinating ride through American history with important lessons for the present and the future. (Response due December 4, 2017). Many more authorities are to the same effect. Id. The historical record presents knotty issues about the original meaning of the Abbate v. United States, Harbor, Schenck v. United States was a Supreme Court case decided in 1919. Recalling that the Id. This view of precedent implies that even common-law judges did not act as legislators, inserting their own preferences into the law as it developed. The Fifth Amendment's Double Jeopardy Clause protects us against being charged and convicted of the same crime twice. The first, Fox v. Ohio, 5 How. Justice Story’s dissent, moreover, declared successive prosecutions for the same offense contrary to “the principles of the common law, and the genius of our free government.” Houston, 5 Wheat., at 72. Mr. Justice Johnson agreed that if the state courts had become empowered to try the defendant for the federal offense, then such a state trial would bar a federal prosecution. Brief for the United States, supra note 8, at 52 (citing United States v. Roof, 252 F. Supp. We consider in this case whether to overrule a longstanding interpretation of the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Rep., at 815. 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