Published August 14, 2026 at 12:33 PM ET · Updated August 14, 2026 at 6:08 PM ET
Mangione moves to dismiss New York murder case on double jeopardy grounds
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Luigi Mangione's defense lawyers have asked a New York judge to dismiss state murder charges on double jeopardy grounds. The motion follows Mangione's guilty plea in the federal case.
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⚖ The Constitutional Angle
Gamble v. United States reaffirmed that successive state and federal prosecutions for the same act are not barred, because each sovereign defines its own offenses; a guilty plea in one sovereign did not stop the other from prosecuting. The federal plea therefore does not by itself bar New York's charges. Blockburger's same-elements test cannot help, since two sovereigns mean two offenses.
Terance Martez Gamble v. United States 587 U.S. 678 (2019)
Vote: 7-2
Dual sovereignty reaffirmed. After Gamble pleaded guilty to an Alabama felon-in-possession charge, federal prosecutors indicted him for the same instance of possession. The Court declined to overturn the 'longstanding dual-sovereignty doctrine,' holding it is not an exception to double jeopardy but follows from the Fifth Amendment's text: an 'offence' as originally understood is defined by a law, and each law is defined by a sovereign, so where there are two sovereigns there are two laws and two offenses.
Blockburger v. United States 284 U.S. 299 (1932)
Vote: 9-0 (unanimous; no dissents or concurrences noted in the U.S. Reports)
The source of the same-elements test. Blockburger made two sales of morphine to the same buyer (the second begun after the first was complete) and was convicted of selling not from the original stamped package and selling without a written order.
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