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Double Jeopardy In Criminal Law

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Double jeopardy is followed by the 5th admen dent which is said in the book principal of criminal law as, " shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb. Though for double jeopardy to apply the prosecution has to be for the same crime, never a different one involved. Another way double jeopardy does not apply is when a case has been reversed on appeal and when a mistrial is recorded due to any valid reasonings. So in the book principals of criminal law the it gives us an example for when double jeopardy would not apply. You can say if a person was tried in a state court for robbing a bank and is found not guilty, that same person can later be tried in a federal court for robbing that bank because

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