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 ...

Our Constitution and amendments are the supreme law of America ... Some criminal acts could be state, federal, or both. The double jeopardy clause in the Fifth Amendment precludes the same ...

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 agrees with the defendant’s double jeopardy argument.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...