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To: Traveler59

Huh? How can a not guilty verdict be appealed by a prosecutor? Wouldn’t that amount to double jeopardy?


11 posted on 10/31/2013 4:09:55 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Still Thinking
It has been done before by overzealous prosecutors.
21 posted on 10/31/2013 7:41:00 PM PDT by Traveler59 ( Truth is a journey, not a destination.)
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To: Still Thinking

My instructors told me [us, the class] when I was studying law that a not guilty verdict could not be appealed, they also told us that a jury’s guilty verdict could be over ruled by a Judge and a direct verdict of not guilty rendered. However that said that a judge could not over ride a not verdict and direct a verdict of guilty. In other words, once the jury rendered a not guilty verdict; it was over. But that was then and this is now.


28 posted on 10/31/2013 8:08:19 PM PDT by sport
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