United States v. Batchelder

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United States v. Batchelder
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 4, 1979
Full case name	United States v. Batchelder
Citations	442 U.S. 114 (more)
Holding
Where two statutes criminalize the same act and those statutes have different maximum penalties, the maximum penalty of the statute the prosecutor chose to charge under applies.
Court membership
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices William J. Brennan Jr. · Potter Stewart Byron White · Thurgood Marshall Harry Blackmun · Lewis F. Powell Jr. William Rehnquist · John P. Stevens
Case opinion
Majority	Marshall, joined by unanimous
Laws applied
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968

United States v. Batchelder, 442 U.S. 114 (1979), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that, where two statutes criminalize the same act and those statutes have different maximum penalties, the maximum penalty of the statute the prosecutor chose to charge under applies.^[1]