Sentence examples for jeopardy protection from inspiring English sources

A law that took effect in 2005 set aside the centuries-old "double jeopardy" protection against being prosecuted twice for the same offense if fresh evidence becomes available.

I would hold that double jeopardy protection is not triggered by a judge's erroneous preverdict ruling that creates an "element" out of thin air and then holds that the element is not satisfied.

If a guilty plea does not give jeopardy protection against all charges that could possibly be brought, such protection will be afforded by a standard agreement covering the "scope of the indictment". And prosecutors' institutional constraints will generally offer assurances far beyond those terms.

Criminal defendants thus now have less Double Jeopardy protection than they had at the Founding.

Our focus is on the idea that a prosecutor might offer defendants the option of waiving their double jeopardy protection, in return for a reduction in prosecutorial investment in the "first" trial and perhaps other benefits.

We suggest that if law were to weaken the protection, or more likely to permit the defendant to waive the double jeopardy protection, both private and social benefits might follow.

The state charges could be challenged in the courts as a violation of double jeopardy protections for defendants, an area in which current New York law may favor Manafort.

It has been suggested, for example, that an appeal from a conviction amounts to a "waiver" of double jeopardy protections, see Trono v. United States, supra, 199 U.S. 521, 533, 26 S.Ct.

Deaths, double jeopardy protections for defendants and lack of evidence have been formidable obstacles.

Double Jeopardy protections found in the Fifth Amendment do not apply in dual federal/state investigations and prosecutions such as this one.

This Court declines to hold that the Due Process Clause provides greater double-jeopardy protection than does the Double Jeopardy Clause.