Ashe v. Swenson

Ashe v. Swenson
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued November 13, 1969 Decided April 6, 1970
Full case name	Bob Fred Ashe, Petitioner v. Harold R. Swenson, Warden
Citations	397 U.S. 436 (more) 90 S.Ct. 1189
Holding
When an issue of ultimate fact has once been determined by a valid and final judgment, that issue cannot again be litigated between the same parties in any future lawsuit.
Court membership
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices Hugo Black · William O. Douglas John M. Harlan II · William J. Brennan, Jr. Potter Stewart · Byron White Thurgood Marshall
Case opinions
Plurality	Stewart, joined by Douglas, White, Marshall
Concurrence	Black
Concurrence	Harlan
Concurrence	Brennan, joined by Douglas, Marshall
Dissent	Burger

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Ashe v. Swenson, 397 U.S. 436 (1970), was a decision by the United States Supreme Court, which held that "when an issue of ultimate fact has once been determined by a valid and final judgment, that issue cannot again be litigated between the same parties in any future lawsuit." The Double Jeopardy Clause prevents a state from relitigating a question already decided in favor of a defendant at a previous trial. Here, the guarantee against double jeopardy enforceable through the Fourteenth Amendment provided that the government could not prosecute the criminal defendant in a second trial as it related to a different victim but the same robbery the criminal defendant was acquitted of in the first trial.

See also

• List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 397
• Waller v. Florida (1970)

Further reading

• Deason, M. C., Jr. (1970). "Rule of Collateral Estoppel Embodied in the Fifth Amendment Guaranty against Double Jeopardy". Cumberland-Samford Law Review 1: 355. ISSN 00459275. 
• Schaefer, Walter V. (1970). "Unresolved Issues in the Law of Double Jeopardy: Waller and Ashe". California Law Review (California Law Review, Vol. 58, No. 2) 58 (2): 391–404. DOI:10.2307/3479664. JSTOR 3479664. 

External links

• Text of Ashe v. Swenson, 397 U.S. 436 (1970) is available from: Justia · Findlaw

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