Criminal Law - Double Jeopardy Clause - Successive Prosecutions - Lesser Included Offense

Authors

Carol Starr

Abstract

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has held that the double jeopardy protections of Rule 1120(d) of the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure applied only to successive prosecutions and could not be invoked to bar a retrial following a mistrial precipitated by a hung jury.

Commonwealth v. McCane, 517 Pa. 489, 539 A.2d 340 (1988).

First Page

411

Recommended Citation

Carol Starr, Criminal Law - Double Jeopardy Clause - Successive Prosecutions - Lesser Included Offense, 27 Duq. L. Rev. 411 (1989).
Available at: https://dsc.duq.edu/dlr/vol27/iss2/10