On Native Land, a Constitutional Reckoning Over Double Jeopardy

The circumstances that gave rise to Denezpi touch on core issues of due process and sovereignty, in particular the legal status of Indian lands within America’s constitutional architecture.

AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta
The Supreme Court on June 8, 2022. AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta

A case that emerged from a 500,000-acre Indian reservation in America’s sprawling West will reshape the contours of one of common law’s ancient taboos. The Romans called it non bis in idem, or “not twice against the same.” 

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