Tuesday, August 24, 2010

A question about double jeopardy and murder cases w/no body?

say you were acquitted of murdering a person, and there was no body. that person turned up alive later...and then mysteriously died...could you be tried for their murder if the clues led to you?A question about double jeopardy and murder cases w/no body?
We are protected from double jeopardy by laws that prohibit us from being tried twice for the same crime. That's what ';double jeopardy'; is.





The only way a person is going to be charged with murder when there is no body would be if there were incredibly strong evidence.





But let's say a person was acquitted of murder and it was later learned that the ';murdered'; person was indeed very much alive.





The previously accused person has no connection to that individual when that individual does turn up dead unless there is evidence to the contrary.





The first trial for ';murder'; in invalid because there was no murder. A question about double jeopardy and murder cases w/no body?
If you have been tried and acquitted of a murder, you cannot be tried again for that murder. But if the law finds reason, they can seek prosecution on other charges that may be secondary to the crime.
I would think so because the first would have been a sham the person was alive then died mysteriously clues led to you I would say this is not double jeopardy
you couldn't be tried for murder but you could be tried for manslaughter
Once you were acquitted it doesn't matter what happens later...........Like O.J your freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

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