Evans v. Michigan

Supreme Court of the United States

Argued November 6, 2012
Decided January 20, 2013

Full case name

Lamar Evans v. Michigan

Docket nos.

Citations

568 U.S. ___ (more)

Argument

Prior history

acquittal reversed and remanded, 288 Mich.App. 410, 794 N.W.2d 848 (2010); affirmed,

491 Mich. 1, 810 N.W.2d 535; certiorari granted, 567 U.S. ___ (2012)

Holding

The double jeopardy clause bars a retrial when a directed verdict was rendered, even if erroneous. Michigan Supreme Court reversed.

Court membership

Chief Justice John G. Roberts

Associate Justices Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy Clarence Thomas · Ruth Bader Ginsburg Stephen Breyer · Samuel Alito Sonia Sotomayor · Elena Kagan

Case opinions

Majority

Sotomayor, joined by Roberts, Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas, Ginsburg, Breyer, Kagan

Dissent

Alito

Evans v. Michigan, 568 U.S. ___ (2013), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that if a person accused of a crime receives a directed acquittal, the Double Jeopardy Clause bars a second trial of that person for the same crime, even if the person was acquitted in error.^[1]

References

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