the prohibition against double jeopardy came into the United States Constitution from English common law. According to Sir William Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England, it was a ...

An attorney representing Karen Read told a federal judge Wednesday morning that her constitutional right to avoid double jeopardy was on the line as prosecutors press forward on a second trial for ...

Supreme Court had already overturned 2018 wire fraud convictions, but sent case back to lower court, which ruled the case may ...

The Supreme Court on Monday added one new case, involving the double jeopardy clause and the Hobbs Act, to its docket for the 2025-26 term. The justices opted not to intervene in a First Amendment ...

The Supreme Court has tapped a former clerk to Justice Sonia Sotomayor to defend a lower court ruling in next term’s Barrett v. United States, a New York man’s challenge to his robbery convictions and ...

Read’s defense argued a retrial on those charges would constitute double jeopardy. The court ... deliberation room would also contravene our prohibition on probing the content of juror ...

Daily Doubles are a game of risk vs. reward. That much was clear in the March 25 episode of Jeopardy! that saw one player lose a Daily Double but maintain his place in the competition thanks to a ...