The U.S. Supreme Court on March 3 decided to consider if the Constitution’s double jeopardy ban allows a person to be sentenced for two separate crimes arising out of the same robbery.
Specifically, the petitioner, Dwayne Barrett, questions whether a person may be sentenced both for wielding a gun and using that gun to kill someone during the commission of a robbery.
The court’s decision in Barrett v. United States came in an unsigned order without comment. No justices dissented. At least four of the nine justices must approve a petition for it to move to the oral argument stage….