Supreme Court of the United States, 1977

Thompson v. Oklahoma

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided January 10, 1977 · Brennan, Marshall, Whom

429 U.S. 1053; 97 S. Ct. 768 (United States Reports)

Cases that cite this one

33 later published cases cite this decision. The 25 that cite it most often are listed here.

Harvey v. State (Wyo. 1992)
Ex Parte McWilliams (Tex. Crim. App. 1982)
In re Vitale (Ill. 1978)
Borchardt v. United States (Supreme Court of the United States 1984)
Spradling v. Texas; And Dunn v. Texas (Supreme Court of the United States 1982)
Brooks v. Oklahoma (Supreme Court of the United States 1982)
Rivera v. Ohio (Supreme Court of the United States 1982)
Johnson v. Oklahoma (Supreme Court of the United States 1981)
Harris v. Oklahoma (Supreme Court of the United States 1978)
United States v. D'Amico (District Court, S.D. New York 2010)
DeSpain v. State (Wyo. 1993)
United States v. Whitehorn (District Court, District of Columbia 1989)
Morris v. Mathews (Supreme Court of the United States 1986)
State v. Ellis (Conn. 1985)
Haynes v. State (Ga. 1982)
In re Berkowitz (Kan. Ct. App. 1979)
Markham v. Anderson (District Court, E.D. Michigan 1979)
Stephens v. Hopper (Ga. 1978)
State v. Davis (R.I. 1978)
Brown v. Ohio (Supreme Court of the United States 1977)
Harris v. Oklahoma (Supreme Court of the United States 1977)
United States v. Frumento (3d Cir. 1977)
United States v. Frumento (3d Cir. 1977)
State v. Starcher (Ohio Ct. App. 1984)
United States v. Dominic Phillip Brooklier and Samuel Orlando Sciortino (9th Cir. 1981)

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Opinion of the Court

Ct. Crim. App. Okla. Certiorari denied.

Dissenting Opinion

Mr. Justice Brennan, with whom Mr. Justice Marshall joins,

dissenting.

Petitioner was charged by information in an Oklahoma state court with murder. After a jury trial, he was convicted of manslaughter in the first degree. Thereafter, petitioner was charged in separate informations with two additional offenses arising out of the same episode: burglary in the first degree and carrying firearms. He pleaded guilty to these offenses and was sentenced to additional concurrent terms of 10 years’ imprisonment for each offense. Petitioner then made an application for post-conviction relief in the State District Court attacking the latter two convictions on grounds of collateral estoppel and double jeopardy. The District Court denied the application, and the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed.

I would grant the petition for certiorari and reverse the judgment of the Court of Criminal Appeals affirming the *1054burglary and firearm convictions. I adhere to the view that the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment, applied to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment, requires the prosecution in one proceeding, except in extremely limited circumstances not present here, of “all the charges against a defendant that grow out of a single criminal act, occurrence, episode, or transaction.” Ashe v. Swenson, 397 U. S. 436, 453-454 (1970) (Brennan, J., concurring). See Cousins v. Maryland, ante, p. 1027 (Brennan, J., dissenting) ; Dempsey v. United States, 423 U. S. 1079 (1976) (Brennan, J., dissenting) ; Susi v. Flowers, 423 U. S. 1006 (1975) (Brennan, J., dissenting); Vardas v. Texas, 423 U. S. 904 (1975) (Brennan, J., dissenting); Stewart v. Iowa, 423 U. S. 902 (1975) (Brennan, J., dissenting); Waugh v. Gray, 422 U. S. 1027 (1975) (Brennan, J., dissenting); Wells v. Missouri, 419 U. S. 1075 (1974) (Brennan, J., dissenting); Moton v. Swenson, 417 U. S. 957 (1974) (Brennan, J., dissenting); Tijerina v. New Mexico, 417 U. S. 956 (1974) (Brennan, J., dissenting); Ciuzio v. United States, 416 U. S. 995 (1974) (Brennan, J., dissenting); Harris v. Washington, 404 U. S. 55, 57 (1971) (concurring statement); Waller v. Florida, 397 U. S. 387, 395 (1970) (Brennan, J., concurring). See also People v. White, 390 Mich. 245, 212 N. W. 2d 222 (1973); State v. Brown, 262 Ore. 442, 497 P. 2d 1191 (1972); Commonwealth v. Campana, 452 Pa. 233, 304 A. 2d 432, vacated and remanded, 414 U. S. 808 (1973), adhered to on remand, 455 Pa. 622, 314 A. 2d 854 (1974); State v. Gregory, 66 N. J. 510, 333 A. 2d 257 (1975).

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