State v. Cook

916 P.2d 1074, 185 Ariz. 358, 196 Ariz. Adv. Rep. 17, 1995 Ariz. App. LEXIS 171
CourtCourt of Appeals of Arizona
DecidedAugust 3, 1995
Docket1 CA-CR 91-0760
StatusPublished
Cited by25 cases

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State v. Cook, 916 P.2d 1074, 185 Ariz. 358, 196 Ariz. Adv. Rep. 17, 1995 Ariz. App. LEXIS 171 (Ark. Ct. App. 1995).

Opinions

OPINION

EHRLICH, Judge.

In our first opinion in this case, we concluded that fines imposed on Wade Bruce Cook (“defendant”) by the Arizona Corporation Commission for securities violations were penalties which precluded subsequent criminal prosecution for the same acts. State v. Cook, 177 Ariz. 595, 870 P.2d 413 (App.1993). We therefore affirmed the trial court’s order dismissing the indictment. Id. The Arizona Supreme Court denied review. Subsequently, the United States Supreme Court granted certiorari, vacated the opinion and remanded the case in light of United States v. Dixon, 509 U.S. 688, 113 S.Ct. 2849, 125 L.Ed.2d 556 (1993). Arizona v. Cook, — U.S. -, 115 S.Ct. 44, 130 L.Ed.2d 6 (1994).

In Dixon, the Court overruled Grady v. Corbin, 495 U.S. 508, 110 S.Ct. 2084, 109 L.Ed.2d 548 (1990), in which it had held that the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment, in addition to banning multiple prosecutions and punishments for crimes containing the same “elements” as defined in Blockburger v. United States, 284 U.S. 299, 52 S.Ct. 180, 76 L.Ed. 306 (1932), also barred “any subsequent prosecution if, to establish an essential element of an offense charged in that prosecution, the government will prove conduct that constitutes an offense for which the defendant has already been prosecuted.” 495 U.S. at 521, 110 S.Ct. at 2093 (emphasis added). However, after Dixon, for purposes of the federal Double Jeopardy Clause, the single inquiry as to whether a person has been punished or prosecuted twice for the “same offense” again is the Blockburger same-elements test. See Hernandez v. Superior Court, 179 Ariz. 515, 519-20, 880 P.2d 735, 739-40 (App.1994).

In our original opinion, we held that the defendant could not be prosecuted for allegedly violating various securities laws for which the commission already had ordered [360]*360him to make restitution in the amount of $390,841 and pay a $150,000 administrative penalty. We said that the administrative penalty constituted punishment and, thus, that any subsequent prosecution and punishment would violate the Double Jeopardy Clause. The parties never addressed and we never considered whether the defendant was being prosecuted for the same offenses for which the commission had imposed the administrative penally. It was assumed that the criminal prosecution was based on the same acts for which the commission had imposed the penalty. On remand, we must determine whether the proposed prosecution will, under the Blockburger same-elements test, punish the defendant for the same offenses for which the commission imposed the administrative penalty.

FACTS

The facts are set forth in detail in the original opinion. In summary, in February 1989, the Securities Division of the Arizona Corporation Commission accused the defendant of selling unregistered securities, selling securities without a license and securities fraud, violations of Ariz.Rev.Stat.Ann. (“A.R.S.”) sections 44-1841, 44-1842 and 44-1991, respectively. Following a hearing, the commission found that the defendant had committed these violations and ordered him to cease and desist from the sale of securities in Arizona, make restitution in the amount of $390,841 to a number of investors and pay a $150,000 administrative penalty.

Subsequently, the defendant was indicted for the same conduct which was the subject of the proceedings before the commission. The indictment includes eighteen counts: one count of violating A.R.S. section 13-2310 (fraudulent schemes or artifices); one count of violating A.R.S. sections 13-2312, 13-2301(D)(4)(s), (t), 13-301, 13-302, and 13-303 (illegal control of an enterprise); eight counts of violating A.R.S. section 44^1841 (sale of unregistered securities), with one of these counts, Count 7, including A.R.S. sections 13-301, 13-302 and 13-303; and eight counts of violating A.R.S. section 44-1842 (sale of securities by unregistered dealers or salesmen), with one of these counts, Count 15, also including A.R.S. sections 13-301, 13-302 and 13-303.

DISCUSSION

A Whether the state has waived the right to assert that the defendant is not being •prosecuted for the same offenses that were the subject of the administrative proceeding.

The defendant first raises the issue of waiver, arguing that the state never raised the question, either in the trial court or on appeal, whether he was being prosecuted for the same offenses. He maintains that the state cannot now argue that, even if the administrative penalty constitutes punishment, the criminal prosecution would not punish him for the same offenses for which he was punished by the commission. He asserts that it does not matter that the Court in Dixon overruled Grady because Grady would not have applied to his case. In other words, he argues that, even before Dixon was decided, the Blockburger test was the only test that applied in this case to determine whether he was being punished for the same offenses.

The defendant elaborates on his argument by noting that the Double Jeopardy Clause protects against three distinct abuses: a second prosecution for the same offense after acquittal; a second prosecution for the same offense after conviction; and multiple punishments for the same offense. United States v. Halper, 490 U.S. 435, 440, 109 S.Ct. 1892, 1897, 104 L.Ed.2d 487 (1989). He points out that he has continually argued that the criminal prosecution in this ease would constitute multiple punishments for the same offense and that Halper, upon which we relied in our original opinion, indicated that multiple punishment was at issue when a civil penalty was imposed in addition to a criminal penalty. Id. He then cites State v. Nunez, 167 Ariz. 272, 275-76, 806 P.2d 861, 864-65 (1991), for the proposition that, even before Dixon, Grady only applied to cases involving successive prosecutions and that only the Blockburger test applied to cases involving multiple punishments. Thus, he insists that the demise of Grady is immaterial and that the state should have asserted in the trial court and on appeal, as it now contends on remand, that [361]*361only the Blockburger test applied to this case and that, under Blockburger, the criminal prosecution would not punish the defendant for the same offenses for which he was punished by the commission.

We do not agree with the defendant that Grady would not have applied to this case had the issue been presented originally on appeal. The defendant argues that this case does not involve a successive prosecution because, as explained in Mullet v. Miller, 168 Ariz. 594, 596-97, 816 P.2d 251, 253-54 (App. 1991), cert. denied, 502 U.S. 1122, 112 S.Ct. 1245, 117 L.Ed.2d 477 (1992), the proceedings before the commission were not prosecutions. While that may be true, it does not mean that Grady

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