Sentence examples for constitutes double from inspiring English sources

Nor does the finding of a single contempt mean that the criminal contempt sentence under review in this case constitutes double jeopardy because the court also imposed a criminal contempt sentence for the June 26 refusals.

Richmond says that the new investigation constitutes double jeopardy and that its timing, after he was asked to resign and shortly after Science began investigating the case, "would seem to speak for itself".

A third, more-subjective loudness scale involves listener judgment as to what constitutes "doubling" of the loudness of a sound.

You perpetuate a dangerous myth that the estate tax somehow is unique in constituting "double taxation".

The court also found that a jury's failure to agree on the charges did not constitute double jeopardy.

He claimed that the indictment on the felony charge in the Superior Court constituted double jeopardy and also deprived him of due process of law.

Among other things, he said, there is some question as to whether a new trial would constitute double jeopardy, since Ms. Knoller has already been tried, and sentenced, for the mauling.

Joseph L. Bruno, the former State Senate majority leader, may be tried on two counts of mail fraud despite his claims that it would constitute double jeopardy, a federal appeals court said on Tuesday, clearing the way for a retrial.

He also said that the judge had agreed in a bench conference to hold a second hearing today, at which he would argue that even if the DNA matched his client's, it would constitute double jeopardy to prosecute Mr. Morales for murder, because of the judge's ruling last year.

Many retributivists resist the idea that past convictions should matter, on the grounds that having been punished already, more severe punishment for the next wrong would effectively constitute double punishment for the first (Fletcher 2000: 462; Singer 1979: ch. 5).

The state charges against Harris do not constitute double jeopardy, because the state and federal government are considered independent sovereigns for legal purposes, authorities said.