Smith v. United States | |
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Argued March 28, 2023 Decided June 15, 2023 | |
Full case name | Timothy J. Smith v. United States |
Docket no. | 21-1576 |
Citations | 599 U.S. 236 (more) |
Argument | Oral argument |
Opinion announcement | Opinion announcement |
Questions presented | |
Whether the proper remedy for the government's failure to prove venue is an acquittal barring re-prosecution of the offense, as the Fifth and Eighth Circuits have held, or whether instead the government may re-try the defendant for the same offense in a different venue, as the Sixth, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuits have held. | |
Holding | |
The Constitution permits the retrial of a defendant following a trial in an improper venue conducted before a jury drawn from the wrong district. | |
Court membership | |
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Case opinion | |
Majority | Alito, joined by unanimous |
Laws applied | |
U.S. Const. Art. III, amends. V, VI |
Smith v. United States, 599 U.S. 236 (2023), is a United States Supreme Court case pertaining to Article III and the Sixth Amendment. The Court held that a defendant may be retried following a jury trial conducted in the improper venue before a jury drawn from the incorrect district.[1][2]
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