Thomas Moore, Executor of Richard Eels, Plaintiff In Error v. the People of the State of Illinois
Decision Date | 01 December 1852 |
Citation | 14 How. 13,55 U.S. 13,14 L.Ed. 306 |
Parties | THOMAS MOORE, EXECUTOR OF RICHARD EELS, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR, v. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS |
Court | U.S. Supreme Court |
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State v. Moeller
...offence; but only that by one act he has committed two offenses, for each of which he is justly punishable." Moore v. Illinois, 55 U.S. (14 How.) 13, 19-20, 14 L.Ed. 306 (1852). The court in Abbate found further support for the "dual sovereignty" concept by noting the "undesirable consequen......
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Southern Ry. Co. v. R.R. Comm'n of Indiana
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Abbate v. United States
...and might draw to its commission the penalties denounced by either * * *.' 9 How. at page 569. The third case, Moore v. People of State of Illinois, 14 How. 13, 14 L.Ed. 306, gave clear expression to the emerging principle that the Fifth Amendment did not apply to a federal prosecution subs......
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Bartkus v. People of State of Illinois
...in Fox v. State of Ohio, continued in United States v. Marigold, 9 How. 560, 13 L.Ed. 257, and was completed in Moore v. People of State of Illinois, 14 How. 13, 14 L.Ed. 306. Mr. Justice Grier, writing for the Court in Moore v. People of State of Illinois, gave definitive statement to the ......
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Pronouncements of the U.s. Supreme Court Relating to the Criminal Law Field: 1977-1978
...sovereigns, and prosecutions by separate sovereigns are not within the prohibition of the Double Jeopardy Clause. Moore v. Illinois, 14 How. 13, 19--20 (1852). To hold otherwise would allow a prosecution by one sovereign on a minor offense to bar prosecution by the other for a graver offens......
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ONCE BITTEN, TWICE SHY: THE SUPREME COURT'S MISGUIDED DOUBLING DOWN ON THE DUAL SOVEREIGNS EXCEPTION TO THE FIFTH AMENDMENT'S DOUBLE JEOPARDY CLAUSE.
...traditional English rule," and "why the framers would have rejected that traditional rule sub silentio." Id. (citing Moore v. Illinois, 55 U.S. 13, 22 (26) See Brief for Petitioner, supra note 20, at 27-28 (citing Justice Black's argument against Exception's promulgation). Notably in Bartku......