Although the principle can be found in Greek, Roman, and canon law, the prohibition against double jeopardy came into the United States Constitution from English common law.

Opinion: Double jeopardy clause in the Fifth Amendment precludes the same state or federal court from trying the defendant twice for the same crime.

Opinion: Double jeopardy clause in the Fifth Amendment precludes the same state or federal court from trying the defendant twice for the same crime.

—Fifth Amendment, U.S. Constitution As every U.S. schoolboy learns, the Bill of Rights struck down tyranny’s “double jeopardy” practice of trying a man more than once for the same crime ...

The Fifth Amendment deals with the right against 'double jeopardy,' right to indictment by a grand jury and the right not to testify against oneself.

The Supreme Court on Monday added one new case, involving the double jeopardy clause and the Hobbs Act, to its docket for the 2025-26 term. The justices opted not to intervene in a First Amendment ...

A coalition of liberal and conservative Supreme Court justices appeared unlikely to block federal and state prosecutions for the same crime.

Karen Read's lawyers have taken her double jeopardy appeal to the United States Supreme Court with her second trial underway in the death of John O'Keefe.

Tuesday's hearing saw Donald Trump's lawyer being forced to argue against Donald Trump's impeachment defense lawyer.

The panel concluded that the Fifth Amendment’s Double Jeopardy Clause did not bar retrial on the wire fraud charges under a traditional property theory.

The pro-Trump fake electors charged by Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel can still be charged on the federal level. That wouldn't violate double jeopardy.

Sarah Whitcomb Foss, a producer for "Jeopardy!" is asking fans to forget the episode that featured 23 triple stumpers.