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Legal Citation: 359 U.S. 121 (1959)

Appellant
Bartkus

Appellee
State of Illinois

Appellant's Claim
The Supreme Court should void his conviction for bank robbery by an Illinois court. A federal court already had tried and had acquitted him of the same crime.

Chief Lawyer for Appellant
Walter R. Fisher

Chief Lawyers for Appellee
William C. Wines, Latham Castle

Justices for the Court
Tom C. Clark, Felix Frankfurter (writing for the Court), John Marshall Harlan II, Potter Stewart, Charles Evans Whittaker

Justices Dissenting
Hugo Lafayette Black, William J. Brennan, Jr., William O. Douglas, Earl Warren

Place
Washington, D.C.

Date of Decision
30 March 1959

Decision
The Court denied Bartkus' appeal and affirmed his conviction. His second trial after a prior...