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 ...

Karen Read, who’s accused of murdering her police officer boyfriend and fleeing the scene, failed in her bid to avoid retrial ...

In United States v. Aiello, the Second Circuit (Raggi, Chin, Sullivan) remanded the cases of Steven Aiello, Joseph Gerardi, Louis Ciminelli, and ...

The US Supreme Court appointed Williams & Connolly partner Charles McCloud to argue in a case in which the federal government ...

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 ...

so Read doesn't face a double jeopardy situation. Catch up quick: Prosecutors allege Read hit O'Keefe with her SUV during a snowstorm in January 2022 and left him to die. She says she was framed ...

THEREFORE, THEY ARGUE, RETRYING HER WOULD VIOLATE HER CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTION AGAINST DOUBLE JEOPARDY ... the victim of a coverup and that other law enforcement officers were responsible ...