Charges in Multiple Counties

as far as giving up all hope because of the guilty plea check this out. . Blackledge, 417 U.S at 31. The Supreme Court, in Menna v. New York, extended the Blackedge rule to double jeopardy claims, permitting a defendant to assert a double jeopardy claim on appeal despite his guilty plea. It held that where the constitution prohibits a state from “haling a defendant into court on a charge” a conviction on that charge must be overturned, “even if the conviction was entered pursuant to a counseled plea of guilty”.