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jayfish

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16. Sounds Like These Circumstances Are About To Become A Whole Lot More Commonplace.

Reply to Ian David (Reply #2)

Thu May 24, 2012, 03:42 PM

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Supreme Court Allows Arkansas Second Shot At Murder Trial In Double Jeopardy Dispute [View all] Eugene May 2012 OP

centuries of law GONE wwytchwood May 2012 #1

This sort of jeopardy issue has happened before, actually. AtheistCrusader May 2012 #9

There was no verdict. jeff47 May 2012 #12

It would appear that way to me, but his attorney must have seen it differently. freshwest May 2012 #25

These circumstances seem rather unique and not likely to occur again often, if at all. Ian David May 2012 #2

Sounds Like These Circumstances Are About To Become A Whole Lot More Commonplace. jayfish May 2012 #16

If Arkansas presented its best case for capital and first degree murder shawn703 May 2012 #3

Plea-bargain ammo (nt) jeff47 May 2012 #8

Sotomayor discusses that issue in her dissent. n/t PoliticAverse May 2012 #11

They Have Unlimited Power and Funding. jayfish May 2012 #17

Because the prison industry needs bodies underpants May 2012 #27

More details/background on the case can be found... PoliticAverse May 2012 #4

Justice Sotomayor's dissent is fucking brilliant. The Stranger May 2012 #5

VVV The Stranger May 2012 #13

Roberts, Thomas, Scalia, Alito, Kennedy, and Breyer in the majority Freddie Stubbs May 2012 #6

Same group of activist judges who claimed to follow preexisting laws but keep creating their ow Auntie Bush May 2012 #33

Breyer is usually not on the side of conservatives Freddie Stubbs May 2012 #34

If there was a mistrial, he was not acquitted. jeff47 May 2012 #7

Exactly. Jeopardy still exists under that circumstance. AtheistCrusader May 2012 #10

I Think You Missed Something. jayfish May 2012 #14

Settled authority does not allow the attachment of jeopardy to be subject to The Stranger May 2012 #15

Point being the staetment in court did not mean they could not convict jeff47 May 2012 #18

The Judge Erred By Not Allowing... jayfish May 2012 #19

It wasn't the judge. That's AR state law. (nt) jeff47 May 2012 #21

Fair Enough. jayfish May 2012 #23

But they didn't. They were deadlocked on the last charge, which necessarily means they had The Stranger May 2012 #20

I know what they said. But what they said at that point wasn't binding. jeff47 May 2012 #22

They couldn't announce that they had acquitted on the first charges, The Stranger May 2012 #30

They hadn't acquitted. They voted to. jeff47 May 2012 #32

Here is the actual Court Opinion happyslug May 2012 #24

Two experts compared the injuries to that of a serious car accident udbcrzy2 May 2012 #26

This court is a joke - police can cavity search you for anything (a means of coercing a confession) underpants May 2012 #28

We've already dispensed with habeas corpus (Gitmo) and torture (Abu Ghraib), so coalition_unwilling May 2012 #29

Wasn't acquitted, double jeopardy doesn't attach dpbrown May 2012 #31