reprosecution

The bar against double jeopardy applies only to reprosecution by the same sovereign.

The Volokh Conspiracy » “Exonerated” Former Death Row Inmate Reconvicted 2010

The bar against double jeopardy applies only to reprosecution by the same sovereign.

The Volokh Conspiracy » “Exonerated” Former Death Row Inmate Reconvicted 2010

The hate-crimes bill was opposed by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights for allowing the reprosecution in federal court of people found innocent in state court.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Lederman on the Constitutionality of Hate Crimes Legislation 2009

Thus, the bill simultaneously expands federal jurisdiction to cover yet more criminal offenses traditionally handled at the state and local level and encourages reprosecution if a state verdict is insufficiently harsh to satisfy federal prosecutors.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Hate Crimes and Double Jeopardy: 2009

As law professor Gail Heriot, a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, notes in the Philadelphia Inquirer, advocates of the federal hate crimes law have insisted that even in state cases where the evidence of a hate crime was very weak, leading to acquittals, federal reprosecution is warranted.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Hate Crimes and Double Jeopardy: 2009

It criticized the bill for allowing the reprosecution in federal court of even more people found innocent in state court, by radically expanding federal hate-crimes law to cover hate-crimes even if they have no connection to any federally-protected activity.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Lederman on the Constitutionality of Hate Crimes Legislation 2009

Yet the federal reprosecution shouldered a burden just as daunting.

Larger Than Life 2008

Judgment was reserved in the Constitutional Court on Friday in an appeal bid by the state aimed at paving the way for the reprosecution of apartheid-era chemical and biological warfare expert Dr Wouter Basson.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

Supporters of federal hate-crimes legislation view it as a way of getting around constitutional protections against double jeopardy allowing reprosecution in federal court of people who have already been found innocent in state court Birth of the Digital New Deal: An Inventory of High-Tech Pork-Barrel Spending Bailout Bill Dangerous, Inflationary, Unnecessary, and Unconstitutional Brandon G: Too bad this message is only heard by those who al ...

OpenMarket.org 2009

In each, a federal jury acquitted the accused, finding them not guilty. allowing reprosecution in federal court of people who have already been found innocent in state court Wendy Kaminer have criticized it for taking advantage of a loophole in constitutional double-jeopardy protections.

Stop The ACLU 2009