Jeopardy
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in law, condition of a person charged with a crime and thus in danger of punishment.
Jeopardy: Exposure to possible conviction, such as being on trial in court.
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JEOPARDY ASSESSMENT - Jeopardy assessments are implemented where the assessment or collection of tax is determined to be in jeopardy.
Jeopardy
It refers to the danger or peril in particular for the crime for which he/she is going to be charged and tried and close to being convicted.
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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.
JEOPARDY. Peril, danger. 2. This is the meaning attached to this word used in the act establishing and regulating the post office department.
jeopardy
n. peril, particularly danger of being charged with or convicted of a particular crime. Once a person has been acquitted, he/she may not be charged again for that crime.
jeopardy See double jeopardy.
JIS Judicial Information System. Statewide court computer system.
JISC Judicial Information System Committee. A state committee of 14 members, who serve as steering committee for JIS.
jeopardy: Risk to a defendant of possible conviction and punishment. In a criminal case, the defendant is usually said to be "in jeopardy" after the preliminary hearing has taken place and the jury has been sworn in.
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 -- 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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Jeopardy
Definition - Noun
1 : exposure to or imminence of death, loss, or injury
2 : the danger of conviction that an accused person is subjected to when on trial for a criminal offense
see also double jeopardy ...
j jeopardyThe peril in which an accused is placed. After that, the accused may not be tried later for the same offense. See doublejeopardy.
double jeopardy - Fifth Amendment guarantee, enforceable against states through Fourteenth Amendment, protects against second prosecution for same offense after acquittal or conviction, and against multiple punishments for same offense.
Acquittal
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.
Nemo debet bis vexari pro uno et eadam causa. No person should twice be prosecuted for one and the same cause. No person shall be twice put in jeopardy.
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