context: The fact that one of Benson's (suspended) terms of imprisonment was later found to have been imposed in violation of the Double Jeopardy Clause does not mean that the district court did not have subject-matter jurisdiction over his trial.
citation_a.signal: see
citation_a.identifier: 80 U.S. 335, 357
citation_a.parenthetical: "[The] erroneous manner in which [the court's] jurisdiction was exercised, however it may have affected the validity of the act, did not ... render the defendant liable to answer in damages for it at the suit of the plaintiff, as though the court had proceeded without having any jurisdiction whatever."
citation_a.sentence: See Bradley v. Fisher, 13 Wall. 335, 80 U.S. 335, 357, 20 L.Ed. 646 (1871) (“[The] erroneous manner in which [the court’s] jurisdiction was exercised, however it may have affected the validity of the act, did not ... render the defendant liable to answer in damages for it at the suit of the plaintiff, as though the court had proceeded without having any jurisdiction whatever.”) cited in Stump, 435 U.S. at 359, 98 S.Ct. 1099; cf. id. at 352, 98 S.Ct. 1099 (“[I]f a judge of a criminal court should convict a defendant of a nonexistent crime, he would merely be acting in excess of his jurisdiction [not in the clear absence thereof] and would be immune.”); United States v. Lawuary, 211 F.3d 372, 380 (7th Cir.2000) (Easterbrook, J., concurring) (stating that laws affecting the maximum length of sentences “are unrelated to subject-matter jurisdiction.”)
citation_b.signal: cf.
citation_b.parenthetical: "[I]f a judge of a criminal court should convict a defendant of a nonexistent crime, he would merely be acting in excess of his jurisdiction [not in the clear absence thereof] and would be immune."
citation_b.sentence: See Bradley v. Fisher, 13 Wall. 335, 80 U.S. 335, 357, 20 L.Ed. 646 (1871) (“[The] erroneous manner in which [the court’s] jurisdiction was exercised, however it may have affected the validity of the act, did not ... render the defendant liable to answer in damages for it at the suit of the plaintiff, as though the court had proceeded without having any jurisdiction whatever.”) cited in Stump, 435 U.S. at 359, 98 S.Ct. 1099; cf. id. at 352, 98 S.Ct. 1099 (“[I]f a judge of a criminal court should convict a defendant of a nonexistent crime, he would merely be acting in excess of his jurisdiction [not in the clear absence thereof] and would be immune.”); United States v. Lawuary, 211 F.3d 372, 380 (7th Cir.2000) (Easterbrook, J., concurring) (stating that laws affecting the maximum length of sentences “are unrelated to subject-matter jurisdiction.”)