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SUPREME COURT: JUSTICE SCALIA DEATH AND SCOTUS CHANGES
These are five cases likely to be decided by the Supreme Court during Kavanaugh's first term

1.  Protecting people from being tried for the same crime twice - double jeopardy

Gamble v. United States centers on the constitutionality of the “separate sovereignty exception” to the Fifth Amendment’s double jeopardy clause.  

The decision will determine whether people can continue to be tried twice for the same crime so long as one trial is brought in state court and the other trial is brought in federal court.


2.  Limiting who can be charged under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA)

Stokeling v. United States will decide which state robbery crimes should be considered violent felonies under the Armed Career Criminal Act, a statute that set a minimum sentence of 15 years for crimes involving firearms if the offender already has three serious or violent felony convictions on their record.

The case was brought forth by Denard Stokeling, who in 2016 received a federal conviction of being a felon in possession of a gun. He’s arguing that an unarmed robbery he was convicted of in Florida in 1997 should not be classified as a violent crime, thus disqualifying him from being sentenced under the ACCA.

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RE: SUPREME COURT: JUSTICE SCALIA DEATH AND SCOTUS CHANGES - by HairOfTheDog - 10-10-2018, 05:29 PM