Karen Read, who’s accused of murdering her police officer boyfriend and fleeing the scene, failed in her bid to avoid retrial ...

In United States v. Aiello, the Second Circuit (Raggi, Chin, Sullivan) remanded the cases of Steven Aiello, Joseph Gerardi, Louis Ciminelli, and ...

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 ...

...nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb.... Although the principle can be found in Greek, Roman, and canon law, the prohibition against ...

IN THE SEAPORT. WHERE WERE THE HEARING JUST WRAPPED UP? TODD DOUG AT THIS HOUR? KAREN REED IS NOW AT HER SECOND COURTHOUSE OF THE DAY. AFTER STARTING THE MORNING HERE AT FEDERAL COURT FOR AN ...

Karen Read is taking her double jeopardy fight to the second highest court in the nation. A federal judge denied Read’s petition to drop two of the three criminal charges she faces in state ...

The US Supreme Court appointed Williams & Connolly partner Charles McCloud to argue in a case in which the federal government agrees with the defendant’s double jeopardy argument.

The Government today massively extended plans to abandon the 800-year-old double jeopardy rule, which stops anyone being tried twice for the same crime. Unveiling the new Criminal Justice Bill ...

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 ...

PETALING JAYA (May 3): The Penang High Court on Friday dismissed former Penang chief minister Lim Guan Eng, his wife Betty Chew Gek Cheng, and businesswoman Phang Li Koon’s attempt to strike out ...