| 单词 | double jeopardy |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdouble jeopardy double jeopardy n. Law the placing of a person in jeopardy twice for the same offence, against which there is a common-law immunity. ΚΠ 1910 W. W. Willoughby Constit. Law of U.S. I. §184. 439 It was held that by an act of Congress in 1902, the immunity from double jeopardy for crime as provided in the Constitution had been extended to the Philippines. 1969 M. L. Friedland Double Jeopardy i. 3 The history of the rule against double jeopardy is the history of criminal procedure. No other procedural doctrine is more fundamental or all pervasive. 1970 H. Waugh Finish me Off (1971) 194 If we charge him and the jury lets him off, there's no second chance. That's double jeopardy. < as lemmas |
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