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 ...
That much was clear in the March 25 episode of Jeopardy! that saw one player lose a Daily Double but maintain his place in ...
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 ...
An attorney representing Karen Read told a federal judge Wednesday morning that her constitutional right to avoid double jeopardy was on the line as prosecutors press forward on a second trial for ...
The Supreme Court has tapped a former clerk to Justice Sonia Sotomayor to defend a lower court ruling in next term’s Barrett v. United States, a New York man’s challenge to his robbery convictions and ...
In United States v. Aiello, the Second Circuit (Raggi, Chin, Sullivan) remanded the cases of Steven Aiello, Joseph Gerardi, Louis Ciminelli, and ...
THEREFORE, THEY ARGUE, RETRYING HER WOULD VIOLATE HER CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTION AGAINST DOUBLE JEOPARDY. WE HAD A LENGTHY ARGUMENT IN FRONT OF THE CHIEF JUDGE OF THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT ...
Daily Doubles are a game of risk vs. reward. That much was clear in the March 25 episode of Jeopardy! that saw one player lose a Daily Double but maintain his place in the competition thanks to a ...