Docket nos. 11-1327 Argument Oral argument | Citations 568 U.S. ___ (more) | |
Full case name Lamar Evans v. Michigan Prior history acquittal reversed and remanded, 288 Mich.App. 410, 794 N.W.2d 848 (2010); affirmed,491 Mich. 1, 810 N.W.2d 535; certiorari granted, 567 U.S. ___ (2012) Majority Sotomayor, joined by Roberts, Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas, Ginsburg, Breyer, Kagan | ||
Evans v. Michigan, 568 U.S. ___ (2013), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that if a person accused of a crime receives a directed acquittal, the Double Jeopardy Clause bars a second trial of that person for the same crime, even if the person was acquitted in error.
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