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No. 17-646


             ]n  tje 6upreme Court of tje Unitch *tates


                      TERANCE  MARTEz  GAMBLE, PETITIONER

                                       V.

                           UNITED  STATES OF AMERICA


                      ON PETITION FOR A WRIT OF CERTIORARI
                      TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                           FOR THE ELEVENTH  CIRCUIT


    REPLY IN SUPPORT OF MOTION  FOR LEAVE  TO PARTICIPATE IN ORAL ARGUMENT
                         AND  FOR EXPANDED  ARGUMENT


    The Court should grant the motion for the amici States to participate in oral argument

in this important case concerning whether nearly two centuries of precedent should be over-

turned. None of petitioner's contrary arguments counsels against the Court hearing from

the broad and diverse group of 36 States whose sovereignty petitioner blithely attacks.

    1. Petitioner first argues that, because this case involves a subsequent federal prose-

cution, the States' interests are not implicated. But petitioner's own merits briefing insists

that the opposite is true. The question presented-as  drafted by petitioner-asks

[w]hether the Court should overrule the 'separate sovereigns' exception to the Double

Jeopardy Clause. Pet. Br. i; Pet. i. That formulation does not limit the Court's analysis to

a subsequent federal prosecution. To the contrary, petitioner's brief repeatedly attacks du-

plicative prosecutions. See Pet. Br. 3; accord Pet. Br. 6, 36, 43, 45. Petitioner's brief never


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