l, hung jury, or termination for any other "legally sufficient" reason. "Double jeopardy" refers to the "danger" of a second punishment whenever a defendant is brought to trial again for the same crime (or a greater or lesser-included crime). This means that there cannot be a second prosecution for the same criminal act (both in fact and in law) upon which a first prosecution was based. The accused must be released and the case dismissed. The challenge is determining what constitutes the "same" crime for double jeopardy purposes. Some examples of double jeopardy are as follows:

This brings us to the other meaning of collateral estoppel, which means forbidding retrying of factual issues that have already been determined. This applies not only to civil cases but also made applicable to criminal cases by the Supreme Court. It's commo

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