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Supreme Court grants cert on Double Jeopardy claim involving federal mandatory gun sentences

The US Supreme Court this morning in this new order list granted certiorari in one case, and it is a criminal/sentencing matter.  The petitioner via this cert petition in Barrett v. US, No. 24-5774, presented two questions to the Justices, but just grant of review was limited to just this first question:

Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause permits two sentences for an act that violates 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) and § 924(j), a question that divides seven circuits but about which the Solicitor General and Petitioner agree.

Notably, the cert petition was filed back in November 2024 before the change in administrations, so it is possible that new people in the Office of the Solicitor General may not longer agree with the petitioner about how this question should be answered.