Evans v. Michigan
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued November 6, 2012 Decided January 20, 2013
Full case name	Lamar Evans v. Michigan
Docket no.	11-1327
Citations	568 U.S. 313 (more) 133 S. Ct. 1069; 185 L. Ed. 2d 124; 2013 U.S. LEXIS 1614
Argument	Oral argument
Case history
Prior	Acquittal reversed and remanded, 288 Mich. App. 410, 794 N.W.2d 848 (2010); affirmed, 491 Mich. 1, 810 N.W.2d 535; cert. granted, 567 U.S. 905 (2012).
Holding
The double jeopardy clause bars a retrial when a directed verdict was rendered, even if erroneous. Michigan Supreme Court reversed.
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy Clarence Thomas · Ruth Bader Ginsburg Stephen Breyer · Samuel Alito Sonia Sotomayor · Elena Kagan
Case opinions
Majority	Sotomayor, joined by Roberts, Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas, Ginsburg, Breyer, Kagan
Dissent	Alito
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. V

Evans v. Michigan, 568 U.S. 313 (2013), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that if a person accused of a crime receives a directed acquittal, the Double Jeopardy Clause bars a second trial of that person for the same crime, even if the person was acquitted in error.^[1][2]

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