After Mohammed arrived at Guantánamo, a team of F.B.I. and military interrogators tried to elicit from him and his co-defendants the same confessions that the C.I.A. had obtained about the 9/11 plot, but by using only legal means of interrogation.
While Mr. Patton represented Mr. Ruqai at the proceeding in Manhattan, a new lawyer is expected to be appointed because the defender's office had represented another defendant in the same indictment years ago.
He was Ram Singh, another defendant in the same rape case.
They were known for bribing juries and fabricating evidence, once even representing the plaintiff and defendant in the same case.
Double jeopardy prohibits retrial of a defendant by the same "sovereign" or government entity on the same or very similar charges.
This is akin to an attorney trying to represent the plaintiff and defendant at the same time in a lawsuit — which isn't allowed because of the competing interests.
introduced legislation in Congress to amend the law to prevent Internet users from facing criminal charges for violating a company's terms of service and to prevent prosecutors from pursuing multiple charges against a defendant for the same act.
Lofgren and Wyden said their bill amends the law to prevent Internet users from facing criminal charges for violating a company's terms of service and prevent prosecutors from pursuing multiple charges against a defendant for the same act.
While the federal government doesn't technically charge the defendant with the same crime, it has most often used the tactic as a thinly disguised ploy to overturn an unpopular verdict, most famously the acquittal of the officers charged in the Rodney King beating.
This is critical- if you hear the defendant using the same idea you were formulating to get off as their reason, pay especially close attention to the judge at that point, and the lawyers as well.
It is at work when judges impose tougher penalties on black defendants than on white defendants for the same crimes.
