Also known as: idem
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A pronoun referring to the identical person, thing, or matter previously mentioned or described.
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Skylar Sullivan and Steven Silva agreed to rob a bank and carried out the robbery. After conviction on the robbery charge, the prosecutor sought a separate conspiracy conviction based on the same agreement. The court refused the separate conviction because the completed offense absorbed the conspiracy.
Sean Steele introduced a tax bill in the Senate. The House amended the bill and sent it to the President. The President signed the measure after the House had first passed its version, satisfying the constitutional sequence for revenue legislation.
Serena Soto offered evidence that the alleged victim had a violent character. The prosecutor responded by offering evidence of the defendant's same trait. The court admitted the rebuttal evidence under the rule permitting response to the victim's trait.
Scott Summers was acquitted of theft in federal court. State prosecutors later charged him with the same conduct under state law. The court dismissed the state prosecution because the second case rested on the identical acts already adjudicated.
Simone Sanders joined a firm that had previously represented a client in a contract dispute. The firm now seeks to represent an adverse party in the same matter. The screening procedures failed to satisfy the rule because the matters were the same.
Sterling Dynamics signed a purchase order and a separate warranty addendum on the same day for manufacturing equipment. A dispute arose over delivery dates. The court read both documents together to determine the parties' obligations under the single transaction.
Completion of the substantive offense merges the conspiracy into the completed crime. The participants may be convicted of the substantive offense but not of a separate conspiracy based on the same agreement and completed offense.
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Revenue bills must originate in the House of Representatives. The Senate may propose or concur with amendments, and the bill must then be presented to the President for approval or veto.
…imposed by this act, no mandamus will lie because the Secretary is responsible only to the President. The second act at the same session, 15 September 1789, changed the name to Department of State and assigned duties in the performance of which the Secretary cannot be lawfully controlled by the President and for the…
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Once the defendant offers evidence of an alleged victim's pertinent trait, the prosecutor may offer evidence of the defendant's same trait to rebut it.
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A prior acquittal or conviction bars a subsequent prosecution based on the same conduct unless the offenses each require proof of a fact not required by the other and are intended to prevent substantially different harms.
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The conflict is imputed when the matter is the same or substantially related to the one in which the formerly associated lawyer represented the client and the lawyer acquired protected information material to the matter.
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A writing is interpreted as a whole, and all writings that are part of the same transaction are interpreted together to determine the parties' obligations.
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