[ArmstedFragg]

I think the point behind the jeopardy clause was to keep people from being tried over and over until they get convicted.

I guess we'll have to just agree to disagree on this one. My interpretation of the jeopardy clause is that it's intended to keep people who've been found not guilty from being tried over and over until they get convicted.

[higgmeister]

here in Marietta I just heard 3 shots in the distance.
each about a minute apart.

[eyespysomething]

Itis just that: If you are found Not Guilty, you can't be tried again, but that jury never reached a verdict, so they essential were starting over again.

[advance_copy]

Well, not that much of a disagreement. I don't claim to be any kind of expert on it. Yet, since there was only one day and a half of jury deliberations and they were breaking 8-4 for acquittal, the whole rape trial/re-trial seems a little fishy to me. Who knows? We weren't in the courtroom to hear the evidence in that case.