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	Double Jeopardy: Encyclopedia of Everyday Law
		In England the protection against double jeopardy was considered a universal maxim of the COMMON LAW and was embraced by eminent jurists Henry de Bracton (1250), Sir Edward Coke (1628), Sir Matthew Hale (1736), and Sir William Blackstone (1769).
		This fundamental maxim of double jeopardy JURISPRUDENCE entrusts the jury with the power to nullify criminal prosecutions tainted by egregious misconduct on the part of the police, the PROSECUTOR, or the court, a tremendous bulwark against tyranny in a democratic society.
		The final question courts must resolve in double jeopardy litigation is determining whether successive prosecutions or punishments are for the "same offense." Jeopardy may have already attached and terminated in a prior criminal proceeding, but the state may bring further criminal action against a person so long as it is not for the same offense.
	law.enotes.com /everyday-law-encyclopedia/double-jeopardy (3421 words)

	Double jeopardy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Double jeopardy (also called "autrefois acquit" meaning "already acquitted") is a procedural defense (and, in many countries such as the United States, Canada, and India, a constitutional right) that forbids a defendant from being tried a second time for the same crime.
		Jeopardy attaches in a jury trial once the jury and alternates are impanelled and sworn in.
		Double jeopardy is also not implicated for separate offenses or in separate jurisdictions arising from the same act.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Double_jeopardy (2048 words)

	Legal Definition of Double Jeopardy
		DOUBLE JEOPARDY - Being tried twice for the same offense; prohibited by the 5th Amendmentto the U.S. Constitution.
		'[T]he Double Jeopardy Clause protects against three distinct abuses: [1] a second prosecution for the same offense after acquittal; [2] a second prosecution for the same offense after conviction; and [3] multiple punishments for the same offense.' U.S. v.
		But, double jeopardy may exist if the federal prosecutors were mere 'tools' of the state or that the federal proceeding was a 'sham' carried out at the behest of the state.
	www.lectlaw.com /def/d075.htm (570 words)

	Double Jeopardy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The term "double jeopardy" refers to the "danger" of a second punishment whenever an individual is brought to trial again for the same crime (or a greater or lesser included crime).
		Nothing in double jeopardy law prohibits simultaneous prosecution for the same offense in the courts of the federal government, criminal courts of another state, or civil courts of the same state.
		The topic is being discussed here, along with double jeopardy, because if there's a successful challenge to the court's jurisdiction, any conviction by that court is invalid and must be thrown out.
	faculty.ncwc.edu /toconnor/325/325lect07.htm (1827 words)

	Double Jeopardy (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Double Jeopardy is a film made in 1999 starring Tommy Lee Jones and Ashley Judd, about a woman who is framed by her husband for his murder.
		The movie explores the ramifications of a misinterpretation of the legal doctrine of double jeopardy, which is a constitutional right in the United States granted by the Fifth Amendment.
		A character in the movie advises Judd's character that she could kill her husband in the middle of Times Square and the police would be powerless to do anything about it because of double jeopardy—because she had already been convicted once for his murder and served time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Double_Jeopardy_(movie) (323 words)

	Archive: Double Jeopardy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The protection against double jeopardy could only be enjoyed by a person tried in federal court...he had no U. Constitutional protection against double jeopardy in the courts of his own state.
		And even though the right to double jeopardy protection had "value and importance" (to quote the language of the opinion), it was not necessarily a "fundamental" right guaranteed by the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment.
		Maryland in 1969 that the prohibition against double jeopardy was made applicable to the states.
	www.csp.state.co.us /academy/ar797.htm (2483 words)

	Double Jeopardy, Criminal and DMV
		The Court held that it violated double jeopardy for a defendant to be tried criminally for selling marijuana and then to be charged civilly for a failure to pay the tax.
		The forfeiture complaint in this case was based on precisely the same conduct addressed in the claimant's criminal case, and it sought to forfeit title to the claimants' property on the basis of precisely the same violations of the same statutes.
		In both cases, the government is attempting to punish the individual in the two different proceedings for the exact same conduct (in the instant case, for driving with.08 percent blood alcohol; the only evidence offered at D.M.V. suspension hearings consists of the identical police reports relied on by the prosecution in filing the criminal charges).
	www.duicentral.com /dui/double_jeopardy02.html (673 words)

	Double Jeopardy, Criminal and DMV (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		On appeal from the suspension hearing he argued that the suspension constituted double jeopardy because of the previously filed DUI complaint.
		Thus the focus in an administrative per se suspension, at least, should be on what constitutes "punishment." For if a license suspension is punishment, then clearly a plea or defense of double jeopardy would be appropriate.
		The notion of punishment, as we understand it, cuts across the division between the civil and the criminal law, and for the purposes of assessing whether a given sanction constitutes multiple punishment barred by the Double jeopardy Clause, we must follow the notion where it leads.
	www.duicentral.com.cob-web.org:8888 /dui/double_jeopardy.html (573 words)

	DOUBLE JEOPARDY - DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		But "double jeopardy" the legal term means something entirely different: one can't be tried for the same specific crime twice; if Libby offs Nick a second time, it is a separate offence, subject to litigation.
		Worse, the filmmakers have a lawyer character deliver their homemade definition of "double jeopardy," and an expert back it up as a quizzical chap looks on: "As an ex-law professor, I can assure you she is right," says Tommy Lee Jones' Travis, an alcoholic parole officer.
		Hell may hath no fury like a Libby scorned, but the goal of her rampage is to regain custody of her kid, who is in danger, as far as the audience is concerned, of being corrupted in his formative years by a cowardly father.
	filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/doublejeopardy.htm (558 words)

	FindLaw Constitutional Law Center: U.S. Constitution: Fifth Amendment: Annotations pg. 2 of 16
		Of course, a defendant's due process rights, absent double jeopardy consideration per se, might be violated if the State ''creat[ed] a hardship so acute and shocking as to be unendurable,'' but that was not the case in Palko.
		Because one prime purpose of the clause is the protection against the burden of multiple trials, a defendant who raises and loses a double jeopardy claim during pretrial or trial may immediately appeal the ruling, a rare exception to the general rule prohibiting appeals from nonfinal orders.
		Bretz, 437 U.S. (1978) (dissenting), Justice Powell attributed to inadvertence the broadening of the ''rubric'' of double jeopardy to incorporate the common law rule against dismissal of the jury prior to verdict, a question the majority passed over as being ''of academic interest only.'' Id. at 34 n.10.
	supreme.lp.findlaw.com /constitution/amendment05/02.html (2122 words)

	Double jeopardy Georgetown Law Journal - Find Articles
		The Double Jeopardy Clause does not apply to actions, such as private lawsuits, that are not "essentially criminal," 1449 even if punitive damages are awarded.
		Double Jeopardy Clause allows the government to appeal pretrial dismissals of indictments because jeopardy has not yet attached.1456 In most civil actions, jeopardy attaches when the government collects the penalty.1457
		Even absent manifest necessity, the Double Jeopardy Clause rarely bars retrial when the mistrial results from a motion by the defense.1468 In United States v.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3805/is_199806/ai_n8790670 (391 words)

	Know Your Rights: The Fifth Amendment: Double jeopardy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Almost all felonies still carried the death penalty, and it is easy to believe that the drafters meant literally that no person ought to "be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb" for the same crime.
		The court agreed, stating, "It is very clearly the spirit of the (Double Jeopardy Clause) to prevent a second punishment under judicial proceedings for the same crime, so far as the common law gave that protection" - emphasizing the word spirit.
		It was not until 1969 that the Supreme Court found it necessary to hold that the Fifth Amendment's Double Jeopardy Clause applied also to the states through the 14th Amendment.
	www.record-eagle.com /edits/know_your_rights/19fifth-jeopardy.htm (1094 words)

	Concurring Opinions: Double Jeopardy?
		He had been tried and acquitted and under the "double jeopardy" provision of the U.S. Constitution could not be tried again.
		He was actually in jeopardy at the first trial: the jury could have found his testimony not credible and convicted him, but didn't.
		Had he somehow rigged the trial so that he was never actually in jeopardy (jury tampering, bribery, etc.) then there is an exception, but I don't think that would apply here.
	www.concurringopinions.com /archives/2006/01/double_jeopardy.html (585 words)

	Double Jeopardy - Ronan Bennett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Double Jeopardy focusses on the trial of the three detectives charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice (the fall-guys, and clearly only the tip of an iceberg), but looks at all that went wrong.
		Double Jeopardy tells an ugly story, one that's still repeated (in all sorts of variations) far too frequently.
		A semblance of justice was done here, but those responsible (not just the three policemen in the dock) got off far too lightly and the public should be far from reassured.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/bennettr/doublej.htm (508 words)

	Double Jeopardy - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Double Jeopardy - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Double Jeopardy, to retry someone for an act when he or she has already been tried and acquitted or convicted for the same act.
		The conclusion of a trial is usually the final determination of an issue, although in certain circumstances a defendant who has been acquitted can be...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Double_Jeopardy.html (144 words)

	GateWorld - Stargate SG-1 Season Four: "Double Jeopardy"
		Teal'c's torturer also spoke of sin, repentance and the afterlife in "The Serpent's Venom." This seems odd, since the Goa'uld presence on Earth was nearly nonexistent at the dawn of Christianity ("Demons").
		Teal'c's robot double was injured with only one staff weapon blast -- and the majority of that was filtered by the Jaffa standing in front of him.
		Carter's double, on the other hand, appears to have died from overloading her electrical system.
	www.gateworld.net /sg1/s4/421.shtml (2072 words)

	Online NewsHour: Supreme Court on Double Jeopardy -- June 24, 1996 \| PBS
		That was double jeopardy, says Perez, a violation of the Constitution's Fifth Amendment.
		TAYLOR: The Fifth Amendment double jeopardy clause bars anyone from being punished twice in two separate proceedings for the same offense, so that if you're convicted of something and sent to jail, they can't prosecute you again.
		These two cases came from lower courts that had held that it violates the double jeopardy clause to either prosecute somebody and put 'em in prison for a crime and then subsequently try and forfeit his property for the same crime, or do it in the reverse order.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/law/june96/double_jeopardy_6-24.html (1325 words)

	Double Jeopardy Movie Review by Anthony Leong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Murder may not always be in a crime, but "Double Jeopardy" certainly is, with the way it manages to waste three fine actors on a story riddled with plot holes and lazy shortcuts, especially when it is guided by the director who helmed "Driving Miss Daisy", Bruce Beresford.
		About the only thing that keeps "Double Jeopardy" from winding up in the trash bin is Ashley Judd ("Kiss the Girls"), whose compelling and heartfelt performance manages to offset the shortfalls of the script...
		"Double Jeopardy" is one of those movies that takes a concept, places an unbelievable set of circumstances around it, and then unleashes it on characters who do stupid things.
	members.aol.com /aleong1631/doublejeopardy.html (957 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Double Jeopardy [2000]: DVD: Tommy Lee Jones,Ashley Judd,Benjamin Weir,Jay Brazeau,Bruce Greenwood,John ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		And thanks to the US Constitution's "double jeopardy" rule, she can't be charged twice for his murder.
		Double Jeopardy has a singularly seductive revenge premise and, in Judd, one of the most seductive leading ladies to grace the silver screen in recent years.
		It's true the film is really just a collection of cliches and the double jeopardy point of law nonsense but I still felt inspired by the sheer unwavering determination of the Ashley Judd character.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Double-Jeopardy-Tommy-Lee-Jones/dp/B000058E3B (1390 words)

	A Stitch in Haste Britain Faces First "Double Jeopardy" Case
		I blogged back in April about how Britain had eliminated the protection against being tried twice for the same crime, known as the double jeopardy rule, in some circumstances.
		In the United States, the protection against double jeopardy for federal offenses is guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment (and incorporated by the Fourteenth Amendment to apply to the states).
		Julie Hogg disappeared from her home and her body was found by her mother behind a bath panel at her daughter's house 80 days after she went missing.
	kipesquire.powerblogs.com /posts/1131815444.shtml (517 words)

	JoBlo reviews the movie "Double Jeopardy"
		Double jeopardy refers to the fact that one cannot be tried for the same murder twice, so in her case, she could now kill her husband and get away with it.
		I personally liked this movie and I am very picky about movies, But people who talk about the double jeopardy rule and say that this movie is not even close to being on that theme should research more.
		The double jeopardy rule is " No one can be tried or punished for the same crime twice".
	www.joblo.com /doublejeopardy.htm (1815 words)

	Double Jeopardy Lawyers, Legal Information, Attorney Finder
		The Double Jeopardy clause guarantee’s that a person will not be tried twice for the same crime or offense in the same jurisdiction. Double jeopardy occurs if someone is charged with a crime and found innocent, and then charged with the same crime a second time.
		Double jeopardy prohibits only more than one criminal prosecution based on the same facts and same crime. Thus, even after a defendant is acquitted criminally, a civil suit may still be brought.
		If a defendant is tried for a burglary that allegedly occurred at 1234 Green Street on January 1, 2000 and is acquitted, the defendant cannot be tried a second time for the burglary of that same house on the same date.
	www.legalmatch.com /law-library/article/double-jeopardy-lawyers.html (314 words)

	Double Jeopardy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Lanza claimed that his prosecution by the United States was in violation of the double jeopardy clause of the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution.
		The Fifth Amendment, like all other guaranties in the first eight amendments, applies only to proceedings by the federal government, and the double jeopardy therein forbidden is a second prosecution under the authority of the federal government after a first trial for the same offense under the same authority.
		The United States Supreme Court held that successive prosecutions by two states for the same conduct were not barred by the double jeopardy clause.
	www.icje.org /id148.htm (944 words)

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