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Lydia Leftcoast

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4. The Anglo-American legal system is one of the few that

Reply to dipsydoodle (Original post)

Tue Feb 14, 2012, 10:51 AM

Feb 2012

says that you can't be retried for a crime if you've already been acquitted.

When living in Japan, I was startled to hear of a case in which prosecutors were granted the right to retry a man who had been acquitted of murder some ten years before.

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Knox and Sollecito murder acquittals challenged [View all] dipsydoodle Feb 2012 OP

Yep JustAnotherGen Feb 2012 #1

I'm not quite sure it's standard operating procedure dipsydoodle Feb 2012 #2

I don't know JustAnotherGen Feb 2012 #6

She's not going back. Renew Deal Feb 2012 #3

The Anglo-American legal system is one of the few that Lydia Leftcoast Feb 2012 #4

The English system has been recently changed to allow it for "new and compelling evidence" muriel_volestrangler Feb 2012 #5

It would be nice if they allowed new and compelling evidence for the 'guilty' as well saras Feb 2012 #7

On the contrary - DNA evidence has been used in several successful appeals muriel_volestrangler Feb 2012 #8

Good! Darth_Kitten Feb 2012 #9