All state constitutions drafted prior to the Bill of Rights contained a double jeopardy provision. The principle was so universal that when James Madison proposed on the floor of the First ...

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In a dramatic legal showdown, Karen Read, the Massachusetts woman at the center of a high-profile murder case, failed to ...