and canon law, the prohibition against double jeopardy came into the United States Constitution from English common law. According to Sir William Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England ...

A murderer who was only jailed for killing a woman after a change in the double jeopardy law will not be moved to an open ...

As a brutal murderer gets closer to a possible release from prison, The Northern Echo takes a look at the crime which eventually changed the archaic double jeopardy law. Julie Hogg was a young ...