• The Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides: "[N]or shall any person be subject for the same offence to...
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  • Double Jeopardy is a 1999 American crime adventure drama thriller film directed by Bruce Beresford, and starring Ashley Judd, Tommy Lee Jones, and Bruce...
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  • In jurisprudence, double jeopardy is a procedural defence (primarily in common law jurisdictions) that prevents an accused person from being tried again...
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    Double Jeopardy Clause, provides the right of defendants to be tried only once in federal court for the same offense. The Self-Incrimination clause provides...
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  • Eastburn family murders (category United States Double Jeopardy Clause case law)
    evidence linking Hennis to the crime. Despite the Fifth Amendment's Double Jeopardy Clause prohibiting retrials after acquittals, the United States Army was...
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  • Double Jeopardy or double jeopardy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Double jeopardy is a type of procedural defence in legal terminology. Double jeopardy...
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  • Jay C. Smith (category United States Double Jeopardy Clause case law)
    another trial would amount to placing Mr. Smith in double jeopardy. Before the Smith ruling, double jeopardy, which prevents a new prosecution, was found to...
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  • Blueford v. Arkansas (category United States Double Jeopardy Clause case law)
    States that clarified the limits of the Double Jeopardy Clause. The Supreme Court held that the Double Jeopardy Clause does not bar retrial of counts that...
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  • Louisiana ex rel. Francis v. Resweber (category United States Double Jeopardy Clause case law)
    issues raised surrounded the double jeopardy clause of the Fifth Amendment, and the cruel and unusual punishment clause of the Eighth Amendment, as made...
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  • Palko v. Connecticut (category United States Double Jeopardy Clause case law)
    the Fifth Amendment protection against double jeopardy applied to state governments through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The Court...
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  • Heath v. Alabama (category United States Double Jeopardy Clause case law)
    each state possess sovereignty – a consequence of federalism), the double jeopardy clause of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution does not prohibit one...
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  • Gamble v. United States (category United States Double Jeopardy Clause case law)
    Supreme Court case about the separate sovereignty exception to the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which...
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  • Blockburger v. United States (category United States Double Jeopardy Clause case law)
    Supreme Court of the United States set an important standard to prevent double jeopardy. The defendant was charged with violations of the Harrison Narcotics...
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  • Benton v. Maryland (category United States Double Jeopardy Clause case law)
    Court of the United States decision concerning double jeopardy. Benton ruled that the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment applies to the states...
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  • verdict no matter how strong the evidence, the Fifth Amendment's Double Jeopardy Clause, which prohibits the appeal of an acquittal, and the fact that jurors...
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  • Free Speech Clause Free Press Clause Free Assembly Clause Petition Clause Search and Seizure Clause Double Jeopardy Clause Due Process Clause (along with...
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  • Bartkus v. Illinois (category United States Double Jeopardy Clause case law)
    of federal officials with state officials did not implicate the double jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. It also held that...
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    Jack McCall (category United States Double Jeopardy Clause case law)
    Agreeing, the federal court in Yankton, Dakota Territory, declared that double jeopardy did not apply, and set a date for a retrial. The trial began on December...
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  • Burks v. United States (category United States Double Jeopardy Clause case law)
    evidence to prove the defendant's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, the Double Jeopardy Clause shields the defendant from a second prosecution for the same offense...
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  • United States v. Dixon (category United States Double Jeopardy Clause case law)
    offenses that contained the same elements were violative of the Double Jeopardy Clause. Alvin Dixon was arrested for murder in the District of Columbia...
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  • United States v. Perez (category United States Double Jeopardy Clause case law)
    decision held that when a criminal trial results in a hung jury, the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment does not prevent the defendant from being...
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  • minimums based on judicial fact-finding are not prohibited. The Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits...
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  • McElrath v. Georgia (category United States Double Jeopardy Clause case law)
    malice-murder charge was an acquittal for purposes of the Double Jeopardy Clause. The Clause therefore bars retrial of McElrath on that charge. The Court...
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    factfinding proceedings going to guilt or innocence violates the Double Jeopardy Clause. Smalis v. Pennsylvania, 476 U.S. 140 (1986) It was decided in Fong...
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  • Abbate v. United States (category United States Double Jeopardy Clause case law)
    decision of the U.S. Supreme Court. The decision held that the double jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution does not prohibit...
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  • Puerto Rico v. Sanchez Valle (category United States Double Jeopardy Clause case law)
    separate sovereigns for purposes of the Double Jeopardy Clause of the United States Constitution. In essence, the clause establishes that an individual cannot...
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  • Denezpi v. United States (category United States Double Jeopardy Clause case law)
    United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the double jeopardy clause does not bar successive prosecutions of distinct offenses arising...
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  • motion to dismiss under the Freedom of Speech Clause, the Double Jeopardy Clause, and the Due Process Clause. On December 7, Trump filed notice that he planned...
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  • and local governments. Heath v. Alabama, 474 U.S. 82 (1985) The Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment does not prohibit two different states from...
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    S.C. § 1028(a)(7) of US code proscribe to the same offense. The Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution would prohibit...
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