double jeopardyin a sentence
- Sonny Seiler first asked the court to bar another trial on the grounds that it would put Williams in double jeopardy.† (source)
- Now for Double Jeopardy, Final Jeopardy, and all the Daily Doubles on the board, who fought with the good old US of A?† (source)
- Double jeopardy—he can't be tried for the same crime twice.† (source)
- Was there such a thing as double jeopardy here?† (source)
- Taking advantage of the judicial concept of double jeopardy, which does not allow an individual to be tried twice for the same crime, the two men later boast to a Look magazine writer about the day they murdered Emmett Till.† (source)
- And the peace of the States would be in double jeopardy from external invasion and internal quarrels.† (source)
- Double jeopardy prevented Billy from being tried again, and the rules about client confidentiality meant I couldn't divulge his dirty little secret anyway.† (source)
- Double jeopardy does not apply to grand jury proceedings.
- Things like double jeopardy, I believe is what he called it, and what was that other thing?† (source)
- Double jeopardy is only on his side if he gets an acquittal.† (source)
- Double jeopardy.† (source)
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- You can either spin your wheels, scouring the evidence from one of the three cases we didn't try Switzer for so we wouldn't get hammered by double jeopardy—be my guest.† (source)
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