{"id":4640,"date":"2021-05-05T12:20:23","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T16:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/?p=4640"},"modified":"2021-05-05T12:20:23","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T16:20:23","slug":"henderson-and-strang-on-behind-bartkus-a-flamboyant-lawyer-a-vindictive-judge-and-the-untold-story-of-double-jeopardys-dual-sovereignty-uofoklahomalaw-loyolalaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/2021\/05\/05\/henderson-and-strang-on-behind-bartkus-a-flamboyant-lawyer-a-vindictive-judge-and-the-untold-story-of-double-jeopardys-dual-sovereignty-uofoklahomalaw-loyolalaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Henderson and Strang on Behind Bartkus: A Flamboyant Lawyer, a Vindictive Judge, and the Untold Story of Double Jeopardy&#8217;s Dual Sovereignty @UofOklahomaLaw @LoyolaLaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen E. Henderson, University of Oklahoma College of Law, and Dean A. Strang, Loyola University School of Law, are publishing <a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3796450&amp;dgcid=ejournal_htmlemail_law:society:public:law:crime,:criminal:law,:punishment:ejournal_abstractlink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Behind Bartkus: A Flamboyant Lawyer, a Vindictive Judge, and the Untold Story of Double Jeopardy\u2019s Dual Sovereignty<\/a> in the New Criminal Law Review (2021). Here is the abstract.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A young defense attorney earns his client, charged in federal court with bank robbery, a jury acquittal. (It\u2019s the attorney\u2019s first.) One would expect the \u2018impartial\u2019 judge to thank the jury for its service. Instead, this one harangues both jury and defense attorney (\u201centailing changes in his complexion from red to purple to dead white\u201d), publicly rails against the verdict, attempts to bar the jurors from service for life, refuses to release the defendant, and prods prosecutors to bring a duplicative state prosecution that would end in conviction for the same crime.<\/p>\n<p>To anyone who respects the rule of law\u2014or at the very least to anyone who respects the American jury\u2014this should be deeply troubling. Yet when it took place in a Chicago federal courtroom in December 1953, state prosecutors leapt at the federal judge\u2019s call. And when the appeal of the duplicative state prosecution reached the United States Supreme Court, the defendant lost 5-4. Criminal practitioners know that result as Bartkus v. Illinois, 359 U.S. 121 (1959), a rule of double-jeopardy \u2018dual sovereignty\u2019 that the Court reaffirmed in 2019. But next to nobody appreciates how it began in that Chicago federal courtroom. That history comes to life in the unpublished notes of the remarkable defense lawyer. It is a story that underscores just how wrongheaded is the legal rule, and that makes vivid the abuse of judicial power.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Download the article from SSRN at the link.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=HedgehogsFoxes\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen E. Henderson, University of Oklahoma College of Law, and Dean A. Strang, Loyola University School of Law, are publishing Behind Bartkus: A Flamboyant Lawyer, a Vindictive Judge, and the Untold Story of Double&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[675,529,132],"class_list":["post-4640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-history","tag-bartkus-v-illinois","tag-legal-history","tag-news"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pasVL2-1cQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4641,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4640\/revisions\/4641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}