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To: SmithL

I thought you could only be tried once for the same crime. Unless the first was a mistrial, is that what happened? I couldn't open the link...


5 posted on 10/28/2005 10:13:22 AM PDT by Froufrou
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To: Froufrou

As she was acquitted of first degree murder she couldn't be tried for that but she could be tried for the deadlocked charges.


8 posted on 10/28/2005 10:14:28 AM PDT by heartwood
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To: Froufrou

Hung juries are mistrials, generally.


10 posted on 10/28/2005 10:15:52 AM PDT by swain_forkbeard (Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
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