GARRITY, Judge.
We shall examine the issue of whether the vacation of a guilty verdict as a predicate to an award of a new trial bars reconsideration, and ultimately reinstatement of the verdict, on the grounds of double jeopardy.
Factual Background
At 2:15 a.m. on July 9, 1986, the seventeen-year-old victim voluntarily accompanied Vincent C. Middleton (the appellant), after meeting him outside a bar, to his apartment located in Montgomery...
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