Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Puleo v. United States

484 U.S. 978

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.