Double Jeopardy
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Jeopardy - in law, condition of a person charged with a crime and thus in danger of punishment.
Double Jeopardy definition:
A prohibition against being tried or sentenced twice for the same offense.
To be in put in criminal law jeopardy twice as to the same offence.
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double jeopardy - Common law and constitutional prohibition (5th Amendment) against more than one prosecution for the same crime.
Double jeopardy - Putting a person on trial more than once for the same crime. It is forbidden by the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: Being tried twice for the same offense.
DUE PROCESS: The idea that laws and legal proceedings must be fair.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY - In criminal law, a plea of "double jeopardy" is a procedural defense based upon state and/or federal constitutional rights (and possibly statutory rights in some states) that forbids the government from trying an accused citizen ...
double jeopardy Constitutional prohibition against charging a person more than once for the same crime.
double jeopardy
n. placing someone on trial a second time for an offense for which he/she has been previously acquitted, even when new incriminating evidence has been unearthed.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY -- Being placed more than once in danger of being convicted and sentenced for the same offense.
double jeopardy
A situation in which a person may be convicted twice for the same offence.
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Double jeopardy
Definition - Noun
: the prosecution of a person for an offense for which he or she has already been prosecuted -
see also jeopardy, Amendment V to the Constitution in the back matter
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double jeopardy dømme to gange for samme forbrydelse, lovgivning der forhindrer at man kan blive dømt to gange for samme forbrydelse
Nederlands (Dutch)
gevaar, gevaar als gevolg van berecht worden
Français (French)
n. - péril, danger ...
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Double jeopardy
Definition from Nolo's Plain-English Law Dictionary
The finding by a judge or jury that a defendant is not guilty of a crime.
In claims of double jeopardy or official immunity, the judicial inquiry itself, rather than just a merits judgment, causes the disruption that the doctrine of immunity was designed to prevent. See, e.g., Abney, 431 U.S.
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