Sentence examples for prosecuted twice from inspiring English sources

Kostas Vaxevanis, the journalist who published the so-called Lagarde list of potential major tax evaders, has been prosecuted twice.

The plea effectively halted the state's case against Ms. Baridis because the rules of double jeopardy bar a person from being prosecuted twice for the same crime.

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.

The Americans breached seven or eight paragraphs of the European convention which, among other things, protects Europeans from being prosecuted twice for the same crime".

Members of the group, the Giannini crew, have already been prosecuted twice through a pair of linked indictments that led to more than two dozen guilty pleas and the closure of Caffe Giannini in 1998.

Another potential tactic: if Mexico lacks charges of its own, the Mexican prosecutor might use the charges from the Americans' PAW, then later refuse extradition on the basis of "double jeopardy," the legal principle that prohibits a defendant from being prosecuted twice for the same offense.

Gleeson is a former prosecutor who prosecuted Gotti twice.

Up here, it seems, we prosecute nearly twice as many drug dealers as England and Wales.

It was a period when I was in conflict with the government because of my reporting on apartheid and was twice prosecuted.

Although the "dual sovereignty" doctrine allows New York State to charge Mr. Aleynikov with a similar crime, the state also has a statute providing that "a person may not be twice prosecuted for the same offense".

In 1996 and 1997, Ms. White's office twice prosecuted Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, who was convicted for a foiled plot to blow up nearly a dozen American jetliners as they flew over the Pacific Ocean, and later for his role in the 1993 trade center attack.