Below are some of the rights provided to all persons in accordance with the Amendment No. 5: An indictment ... or both. The double jeopardy clause in the Fifth Amendment precludes the same state ...

Karen Read is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review her case as her second murder trial in the death of her boyfriend ...

The Fifth Amendment guarantees constitutional protection from facing double jeopardy – trial or punishment ... prosecution didn’t prove the case. No one thought she hit him on purpose or ...

According to Sir William Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England, it was a “universal maxim of the common law of England, that no man is ... contained a double jeopardy provision.

Read's lawyers are seeking to ensure that "Read is not unconstitutionally forced to stand trial for criminal offenses, ...

Under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution, the Double Jeopardy ... "Read contends that the Double Jeopardy Clause’s guarantee against successive prosecutions is no less fundamental than ...

In the filing, he argues that Read’s double jeopardy claim should not carry less weight than that of someone arguing jury bias under the Sixth Amendment. “Read submits that there is no legal ...