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Applicability of the Double Jeopardy Clause to Successive Prosecutions by the United States and the District of Columbia

District of Columbia—Applicability of the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution The OLC does not provide release dates for its opinions, so the release date listed is the date on which the opinion was authored. The original opinion is available at www.justice.gov/file/22016/download.

June 14, 1979