United States is a reminder that the constitutional protection offered by the Fifth Amendment’s double-jeopardy clause is ... means prosecuted under the same law for the same crime.

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 prison, despite a recommendation by the Parole Board. William Dunlop ...

boasting there was nothing anyone could do about it because of the double jeopardy rule in place at the time. Miss Hogg’s mother Ann Ming campaigned for 15 years to get the 800-year-old law ...