How to Use double jeopardy in a Sentence

double jeopardy

noun

• The current law and the concept of double jeopardy in general mean that a person cannot be tried for the same crime twice.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 18 Apr. 2018
• He can't be tried again for this crime in a Montgomery County State Court because that's the double jeopardy clause.
  — Kc Baker, PEOPLE.com, 1 July 2021
• Hunter also stated in the writ that trying his client again would be double jeopardy.
  — Elizabeth Zavala, San Antonio Express-News, 21 June 2022
• Nearly half the states already have bars against double jeopardy.
  — Richard Wolf, USA TODAY, 17 June 2019
• That’s the double jeopardy of being so big: Flip to an environment the life-form doesn’t like, and the whole enterprise goes down.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2022
• A year later, protected from being tried again due to double jeopardy, the two men admitted to the killing.
  — James E. Causey, jsonline.com, 18 Dec. 2020
• Wilson was never charged and tried, so double jeopardy was not an issue.
  — Jim Salter, USA TODAY, 30 July 2020
• Another point of contention that has been raised by Epstein's lawyers is the issue of double jeopardy.
  — Erica Orden, CNN, 9 July 2019
• Years later, the men admitted to the killing, but due to double jeopardy laws, were protected from being tried again.
  — Jasmine Hardy, Essence.com, 12 July 2018
• Because of rules against double jeopardy, the pair — who have since died — were never tried again, despite their confession of guilt.
  — Gabby Raymond, Time, 12 July 2018
• Manafort's lawyers are expected to challenge the state case on double jeopardy grounds.
  — CBS News, 27 June 2019
• Because of double jeopardy, the law requires that Denys Martinez be sentenced on only one of the counts for which he was convicted.
  — Elizabeth Zavala, ExpressNews.com, 20 Nov. 2019
• Greece does not have double jeopardy laws like the United States, meaning people can be prosecuted for the same crime more than once.
  — Kyler Alvord, PEOPLE.com, 10 Feb. 2022
• His legal team has concluded that this is unlikely, though, because of the laws of double jeopardy.
  — Robert Legare, CBS News, 17 Mar. 2022
• Secure in the knowledge that double jeopardy would attach, the two men admitted the killing the next year in a Look magazine article for which they were paid.
  — Margalit Fox, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2023
• In a motion, Manafort had argued that the false-statement charges amounted to double jeopardy, charging him twice for the same offense of lying to the government.
  — CBS News, 26 May 2018
• Some states, such as New York, have equitable double jeopardy written into their law.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 19 June 2019
• Wronko says a petition for the New Jersey Supreme Court to hear his appeal based on double jeopardy principles is pending.
  — Gabrielle Chung, PEOPLE.com, 17 Sep. 2020
• In December 2020, Singer’s attorneys argued that a new trial would amount to double jeopardy for their client and requested the case be dropped.
  — Megan Jones, chicagotribune.com, 11 Sep. 2021
• O’Conor argued that Section 3’s ban on holding office was a form of punishment and that to try Davis for treason would therefore amount to double jeopardy.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
• Then, a year later, protected by double jeopardy laws, the men admitted the killing of Till, who'd been falsely accused of flirting with a White woman.
  — Sara Sidner and Mallory Simon, CNN, 19 Apr. 2021
• All of this put Counsell in the worse sort of double jeopardy entering Wednesday's matinee, with a bullpen unable to protect late leads and now gassed from so being overworked.
  — Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2018
• Manafort’s attorneys are likely to argue that the state case is a form of double jeopardy, because the mortgage fraud stems from the same conduct that led to the federal case against Manafort.
  — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 18 June 2019
• The defense argues trying her on those charges again would constitute double jeopardy.
  — Steph Solis, Axios, 22 July 2024
• Defense attorneys argued that the state’s double jeopardy law prohibits defendants from being tried more than once on the same crime.
  — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2024
• In a first court appearance, prosecutors said double jeopardy doesn't apply in this case since the original charge was felony child abuse.
  — Fox News, 11 Apr. 2018
• In other words, Trump hadn’t quite said that he was covered by double jeopardy—just that his situation was double jeopardy-ish.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2024
• Berry can't be prosecuted again in that case because of double jeopardy laws, but Glass said the state hopes to introduce evidence from those trials in some of the new cases.
  — Heather Nolan, NOLA.com, 18 May 2018
• In most cases, double jeopardy is only a factor when a person has been convicted or acquitted of a crime.
  — Eric Tucker and Michael R. Sisak, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2022
• In January, Judge Hagerman denied the double jeopardy motion and scheduled the retrial, which began last week.
  — Nicole Lopez, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 May 2024

Last Updated: 24 Nov 2024