same transaction test

same-transaction test. Criminal law. A double-jeopardy test, never adopted, that would require the government to bring all charges arising out of a single incident against a defendant in one prosecution. • Justice Brennan advocated the same-transaction test in a case involving a conviction for felony-murder and a later prosecution for the underlying felony. Harris v. Okla., 433 U.S. 682, 97 S.Ct. 2912 (1977). Cf. BLOCKBURGER TEST; SAME-CONDUCT TEST.

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