Order Michigan Supreme Court
Lansing, Michigan
October 5, 2007 Clifford W. Taylor,
Chief Justice
Rehearing No. 538 Michael F. Cavanagh
Elizabeth A. Weaver
Marilyn Kelly
Maura D. Corrigan
127897 Robert P. Young, Jr.
Stephen J. Markman,
Justices
PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN,
Plaintiff-Appellant,
SC: 127897
v COA: 248094
Wayne CC: 02-007289-01
MAURICE LAMONT NYX,
Defendant-Appellee.
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In this cause, a motion for rehearing is considered, and it is DENIED.
CORRIGAN, J., concurs and states as follows:
I concur in the denial of the motion for rehearing, but I write separately to clarify
that double jeopardy principles do not bar the prosecutor from charging defendant with
and retrying him for second-degree criminal sexual conduct. Defendant may be retried
for that offense because he successfully appealed his conviction and the reversal was not
based on insufficient evidence to support the guilty verdict. See Burks v United States,
437 US 1 (1978); Tibbs v Florida, 457 US 31 (1982); Lockhart v Nelson, 488 US 33
(1988).
WEAVER, J., joins the statement of CORRIGAN, J.
YOUNG, J., concurs and states as follows:
I join in Justice Corrigan’s concurrence in the denial of the appellant’s motion for
rehearing, as it is unnecessary for this Court to provide further explication on what is a
bedrock double jeopardy principle. See United States v Ball, 163 US 662 (1896); Stroud v
United States, 251 US 15 (1919); Louisiana ex rel Francis v Resweber, 329 US 459
(1947); Green v United States, 355 US 184 (1957); United States v Tateo, 377 US 463
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(1964); United States v Ewell, 383 US 116 (1966); United States v Scott, 437 US 82
(1978); Tibbs v Florida, 457 US 31 (1982); Justices of Boston Muni Court v Lydon, 466
US 294 (1984); Montana v Hall, 481 US 400 (1987); Lockhart v Nelson, 488 US 33
(1988); Monge v California, 524 US 721 (1998).
I, Corbin R. Davis, Clerk of the Michigan Supreme Court, certify that the
foregoing is a true and complete copy of the order entered at the direction of the Court.
October 5, 2007 _________________________________________
t1002 Clerk