Gamble v. United States

Successfully obtained certiorari review in case challenging the “separate sovereigns” exception to the Fifth Amendment’s Double Jeopardy Clause. Client had been convicted as a felon-in-possession of a firearm in both federal and state court in Alabama. Emmett, one of three attorneys working on the certiorari portion of the case, was the sole author of the reply brief that immediately preceded the Supreme Court’s grant of certiorari. The case subsequently was argued on the merits before the Supreme Court in December 2018.