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
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
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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