52.) Croce is charged with Conspiracy to distribute narcotics. The basis of Croce's alleged criminal liability is a narcotics sale for which he plead guilty three years earlier. After serving his time, Croce returned home and gave up a life of crime for a job in the John Jay library. Croce argues that the case against him must be dismissed because his plea three years earlier precludes this prosecution under the doctrine of: Stare Decisi Res judicata; eoge Double jeopardy; Equal Protection of Law