"clause" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- "That's precisely when an individual needs the protection of the double jeopardy clause."
- Mistrials are generally not covered by the double jeopardy clause.
- Nor can he be retried in state court for murder, because of the double jeopardy clause.
- The double jeopardy clause prohibits multiple punishments for the same offense.
- He expressed, he said, "no opinion whatsoever" about the cases themselves or how the double jeopardy clause might apply to them.
- The ruling "weakens the fundamental protections the double jeopardy clause was intended to provide," he said.
- The double jeopardy clause of the Constitution forbids the Government to bring two actions against a defendant for the same charges.
- Appeals courts have ruled that if a prosecutor's error is intentional, the double jeopardy clause applies and another trial cannot be held.
- It was to avoid political pressures for reprosecution that the double jeopardy clause was adopted.
- Burton next argued that his prosecution violated the Double Jeopardy Clause.
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