Former clerk tapped for fall double jeopardy argument - SCOTUSblog

Former clerk tapped for fall double jeopardy argument - SCOTUSblog

ShareThe Supreme Court has tapped a former clerk to Justice Sonia Sotomayor to defend a lower court ruling in next term’s Barrett v. United States, a New York man’s challenge to his robbery convictions and sentences under two federal laws. The federal government, which prevailed in the lower court last May, has declined to defend that ruling at the Supreme Court. The justices appointed Charles L. McCloud to brief and argue the case. Dwayne Barre…