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BRAVO-FERNANDEZ v. U.S.

No. 15-537.

137 S.Ct. 352 (2016)

Juan BRAVO-FERNANDEZ and Hector Martínez-Maldonado, Petitioners v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 29, 2016.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lisa S. Blatt, Washington, DC, for Petitioners.

Elizabeth B. Prelogar, Washington, DC, for Respondent.

Abbe David Lowell, Christopher D. Man, Chadbourne & Parke, LLP, Washington, DC, Lisa S. Blatt, Anthony J. Franze, R. Stanton Jones, Elisabeth S. Theodore, Arnold & Porter LLP, Washington, DC, for Petitioners.

Ian Heath Gershengorn, Acting Solicitor General, Leslie R. Caldwell, Assistant Attorney General, Michael R. Dreeben Deputy Solicitor General, Elizabeth B. Prelogar, Assistant to the Solicitor General, Vijay Shanker, Attorney, Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Respondent.

This case concerns the issue-preclusion component of the Double Jeopardy Clause.1 In criminal prosecutions, as in civil litigation, the issue-preclusion principle means that "when an issue of ultimate fact has once been determined by a valid and final judgment, that...

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