Gamble v. United States

Gamble v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued December 6, 2018 Decided June 17, 2019
Full case name	Terance Martez Gamble, Petitioner v. United States
Docket no.	17-646
Citations	587 U.S. ___ (more) 139 S. Ct. 1960; 204 L. Ed. 2d 322
Argument	Oral argument
Case history
Prior	United States v. Gamble, 694 F. App'x 750 (11th Cir. 2017); cert. granted, 138 S. Ct. 2707 (2018).
Questions presented
Whether the Court should overrule the "separate sovereigns" exception to the Double Jeopardy Clause.
Holding
The court declined to overturn the separate sovereigns doctrine, concluding that historical precedent has held that it is a part of the Fifth Amendment.
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Clarence Thomas · Ruth Bader Ginsburg Stephen Breyer · Samuel Alito Sonia Sotomayor · Elena Kagan Neil Gorsuch · Brett Kavanaugh
Case opinions
Majority	Alito, joined by Roberts, Thomas, Breyer, Sotomayor, Kagan, Kavanaugh
Concurrence	Thomas
Dissent	Ginsburg
Dissent	Gorsuch
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. V

Gamble v. United States, No. 17-646, 587 U.S. ___ (2019), was a United States Supreme Court case about the separate sovereignty exception to the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which allows both federal and state prosecution of the same crime as the governments are "separate sovereigns". Terance Martez Gamble was prosecuted under both state and then federal laws for possessing a gun while being a felon. His argument that doing so was double jeopardy was found unpersuasive due to the exception. In June 2019, the Supreme Court affirmed the lower court decision 7–2, with the majority opinion stating that there was not sufficient cause for overturning the dual sovereignty doctrine.^[1]