double jeopardyin a sentence
double jeopardy in the legal sense
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Double jeopardy is prohibited by the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution.double jeopardy = second trial, post-verdict
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A state and federal court can both try a suspect for the same crime without double jeopardy.double jeopardy = protection from double trail
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Double jeopardy does not apply to grand jury proceedings.
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Sonny Seiler first asked the court to bar another trial on the grounds that it would put Williams in double jeopardy.† (source)
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Now for Double Jeopardy, Final Jeopardy, and all the Daily Doubles on the board, who fought with the good old US of A?† (source)
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Things like double jeopardy, I believe is what he called it, and what was that other thing?† (source)
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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)
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Was there such a thing as double jeopardy here?† (source)
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Double jeopardy—he can't be tried for the same crime twice.† (source)
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And the peace of the States would be in double jeopardy from external invasion and internal quarrels.† (source)
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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)
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Double jeopardy is only on his side if he gets an acquittal.† (source)
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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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