Do you know of a law called double jeopardy?

Question

Someone said to me that it is a law that states that when a case has been determined in court that it can not be tryed again. Now if there is a hung jury then why is it that the same procedure isn't able to be used in some cases and so do you feel that it should be/is lawful to continue to resume court for the same reason for three times or do you think that it should be one time and if there is a hung jury then the case should be over?

Answer 1

OK, Double Jeopardy applies in criminal cases and it means you can't be tried and aquitted for a crime and then tried again for the same/similar crime.

A hung jury results in a mistrial because no verdict has been reached and therefore a retrial is allowed.

Answer 2

The Double Jeopardy law means that you cannot be tried twice for the same crime. This is necessary, because if you are found innocent, then you should be safe from someone *trying* to convict you AGAIN. A decision was made, done.
A hung jury means NO decision was reached, so OF COURSE the case should be tried again and again, until a jury can agree.

Answer 3

Double Jeopardy - a person cannot be tried for the same crime twice.

A hung jury means that the person has not been fully tried. It (essentially) means that the jury made no decision and so the trial process is not finished. In order to complete the trial process, a new jury must be brought in. In order for the new jury to hear all the evidence, then they basically have to do the whole trial over again.

You have to continue the trial process until an actual decision is reached.

Answer 4

Double jeopardy means that a jury of your peers or a judge has determined you to be not guilty. However when there is a hung jury it means that the 12 people in that room couldn't come to a decision one way or the other. There the case is still undecided and can be try again if the prosecutors office whiches to.

Answer 5

Double Jeopardy simply states that a person cannot be tried again for the same crime if he has been acquitted of that crime.
It saves defendants from malicious prosecution.
That is why if we found proof that OJ really did kill his wife we cannot get him for it now because he was acquitted. They would have to go for a perjury charge.
Hung jury is not the same thing.

Answer 6

double jeopardy prevents someone from being punished more than once for the same crime, so no if they get a hung jury they haven't been found guilty or innocent and haven't been punished so they get tried again.

Answer 7

Please do not trust each and every thing you word on the flicks. enable's use the information of the movie . a lady is arrested for killing her husband and sufficient information is stumbled on to convict her. that is stumbled on out that the husband faked his useless and planted information to incriminate her. he's not useless so there is not any crime, her conviction is reversed, there changed into no crime on her area. She unearths him and kills him, she will be arrested and convicted of homicide. right here's how double jeopardy works OJ changed into acquited of murdering his ex and her boyfriend, because a court docket of regulation with a jury stumbled on he changed into innocuous of killing her he can not ever be tried back for those murders no matter if or not they locate him on a video killing them or for that remember if he confesses to the crime, he even wrote a e book describing how may he have killed them if he had homicide his ex spouse.

Answer 8

You cannot be tryed for the same crime twice (or more). Except when a new evidence is found