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 should be moved to an open prison, the Parole Board has said. William Dunlop strangled Julie Hogg ...

William Dunlop was jailed in 2006 for the 1989 murder of Julie Hogg, 22, after her family successfully campaigned for a change in the so-called double jeopardy law. The Parole Board has ...

Her body was found behind a bath panel, months after she went missing, and in the pursuit of justice Ming took on the Double Jeopardy Law to eventually see her child's killer put behind bars.

Dwayne Barrett, who was involved in a series of armed robberies, argues that the Constitution’s double jeopardy clause prohibits him from receiving two separate sentences – one for violating a federal ...

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 ...