The nation’s highest court announced on Monday it will not hear a former Beaumont ISD contract electrician’s double jeopardy claims, clearing the way for a criminal trial in Jefferson County.

The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court denied a writ of certiorari to Calvin Walker, preventing the case from moving forward into oral arguments.

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Walker’s lawyers, DeGuerin and Stanford Law School’s Jeffrey Fisher, argued in the petition that the court should at least put limits on dual-sovereignty, and accused state authorities of acting as “a sham and a cover” for the federal prosecutors.