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Montana · Through Montana Code Annotated 2025

46-11-504: Former prosecution in another jurisdiction.

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  1. TITLE 46. CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
  2. CHAPTER 11. COMMENCEMENT OF PROSECUTION
  3. Part 5. Effect of Former Prosecutions

When conduct constitutes an offense within the jurisdiction of any state or federal court, a prosecution in any jurisdiction is a bar to a subsequent prosecution in this state if:

(1) the first prosecution resulted in an acquittal or in a conviction and the subsequent prosecution is based on an offense arising out of the same transaction; or

(2) the former prosecution was terminated, after the charge had been filed, by an acquittal or by a final order or judgment for the defendant that has not been set aside, reversed, or vacated and the acquittal, final order, or judgment necessarily required a determination inconsistent with a fact that must be established for conviction of the offense for which the defendant is subsequently prosecuted.

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