Abdur Rahim Islam v. United States

Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause permits a trial court to declare a mistrial based on juror unavailability without scrutinizing a prior, contested juror excusal that foreseeably created the juror shortage giving rise to the mistrial.

Whether a defendant’s refusal to waive his constitutional right to a twelve-person jury under Fed. R. Crim. P. 23(b)(2) may be used to justify a mistrial over his objection under the “manifest necessity” standard.

Whether U.S.S.G. 2C1.1(b)(2), crossreferencing § 2B1.1, permits sentencing courts to equate temporary deferral of payment obligations with permanent economic loss or benefit and to attribute subsequent nonpayment to a bribery offense absent rigorous proof of proximate causation, particularly where independent governmental decisions intervened.