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To: nickcarraway

I honestly believe if you get a mistrial you shouldn’t be able to be tried again.


10 posted on 07/01/2024 3:24:58 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: TexasFreeper2009
I honestly believe if you get a mistrial you shouldn’t be able to be tried again.

I agree and do not understand why double jeopardy does not apply but apparently it does. The state has unlimited resources to try you again and again and even if not convicted, they can destroy you.

13 posted on 07/01/2024 3:32:23 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist ,MAGA)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

So all the defense would have to do is poison the jury (either figuratively or literally) and you’d let a guilty person walk?


26 posted on 07/01/2024 6:03:22 PM PDT by PAR35
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