Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Puleo v. United States
Puleo v. United States, 484 U.S. 978 (1987)
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1987-12-07
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- holding that “consent ‘may always be implied from a totality of the circumstances attendant on the declaration of a mistrial’ ”
- When the defendant has moved for a mistrial or consents to its declaration, the double jeopardy clause will not bar his retrial.
- process that resulted in excluding persons with the last names beginning with M-Z, “d[id] not systemically exclude a distinctive group of the community”
- persons with last names “M-Z” not a distinctive group
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C. A. 11th Cir. Certiorari denied.