United States Fourth Circuit

Juror misconduct provided manifest necessity for the state court's order of a mistrial, and resentencing trial did not clearly violate the Double Jeopardy Clause.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/31/2000
• Published 10/31/2000

Judges

• Before WILKINS and LUTTIG, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  James Richard Glover, Glover & Petersen, P.A., Chapel Hill, North Carolina, for Appellant.  Ellen Bradshaw Scouten, Special Deputy Attorney General, North Carolina Department of Justice, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellees.   ON BRIEF:  Anthony Lynch, Lynch & Taylor, Marion, North Carolina, for Appellant.  Michael F. Easley, Attorney General of North Carolina, North Carolina Department of Justice, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellees.