NACDL - Walker v. Texas

Walker v. Texas

Brief for Amici Curiae National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers – Miami Chapter in Support of Petitioner (on Petition for Writ of Certiorari).

Walker v. Texas

Brief Details

Case No.: 16-636
Brief Filed: December 12, 2016
Jurisdiction: United States Supreme Court

Key Topics in the Brief

Double Jeopardy | White Collar | Fourteenth Amendment | Separate Sovereigns Exception | Protections Against Successive Prosecutions

Briefs

Walker-v-Texas-Amicus.pdf

Prior Decision

Case below Ex parte Walker, 489 S.W.3d 1 (Tex. App. 2016).

Argument(s)

The doctrinal foundation of the separate sovereigns doctrine has been eroded. The practical foundation of the separate sovereigns doctrine has been eroded. The Court should abandon the separate sovereigns exception to the Double Jeopardy Clause to ensure that the Fifth Amendment guarantee against successive prosecutions accords with modern Constitutional jurisprudence and law enforcement practices.

Author(s)

Howard Srebnick and Joshua Shore, Black, Srebnick, Kornspan & Stumpf, P.A., Miami, FL; Terrance G. Reed, Lankford & Reed, PLLC, Alexandria, VA; Barbara E. Bergman, James E. Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.