Manafort Shadow Looms Over Supreme Court Double Jeopardy Case

Terance Gamble’s gun prosecution has nothing to do with Russians, elections, or hush money, but his U.S. Supreme Court case could impact Paul Manafort and others ensnared by the special counsel probe.

Gamble, whose case will be heard Thursday, was convicted in both state and federal court in Alabama for the same 2015 gun possession. He argues his second prosecution violated the Fifth Amendment’s double jeopardy clause, which says people can’t be “twice put in jeopardy of life or limb” for the “same offence.”

Courts have allowed such double-prosecutions under the longstanding “separate sovereigns” exception.

But the timing of the ...