Word: bartkus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...courts from trying anyone twice for the same offense, but that particular Bill of Rights provision has yet to be applied to the states. As one result, the Supreme Court ruled in 1959 that a person can be tried for the same crime in both federal and state courts (Bartkus v. Illinois). As another, Indiana's top court last year rejected the federal standard, upholding Ronald R. Cichos' retrial and conviction for reckless homicide while tossing out his claim of double jeopardy. If Cichos wins his Supreme Court appeal, all American courts will have to use the federal...
...Justice Department's Criminal Division in Washington. Says he: "I feel lucky, going broke on the things I did." - Chicago's Walter Fisher, 73, a patrician partner in a patrician law firm, was asked by the Supreme Court in 1956 to represent Illinois Indigent Alphonse Bartkus in a classic double-jeopardy case. Charged with bank robbery, Bartkus had been acquitted in a federal court-then convicted of the same crime in a state court. Fisher soon produced a highly impressive brief for Life Prisoner Bartkus. Reluctantly, the Supreme Court twice rejected his arguments on the grounds that Americans...