York v. Texas
Petition for certiorari denied on January 17, 2012
Issue: Whether the doctrine of collateral estoppel, embodied in the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment and made applicable to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment, bars relitigation of a fact necessarily decided in the defendant’s favor in an initial prosecution, when that fact is deemed evidentiary in nature in a subsequent prosecution.
Briefs and Documents
Certiorari-stage documents
