The Fifth Amendment guarantees constitutional protection from facing double jeopardy – trial or punishment for the same offense twice. After a mistrial, a retrial can normally proceed – but ...

Andrew Hayes, from Tupelo, Mississippi, returned for his third game on Friday, April 11, against Michael DiSciullo, from ...

Karen Read is asking the highest court in the nation to take up her double jeopardy claims. The court is asked to review more than 7,000 cases each year — it agrees to hear between 100 to 150.

Karen Read is appealing to the nation’s highest court in her bid to get her second-degree murder charge and another count thrown out on double jeopardy grounds. Read filed a petition for a writ ...

Read has argued that retrying her on all charges constitutes double jeopardy. Read's attorneys first made the argument in a motion to dismiss filed Cannone, who is presiding over her retrial.

With her upcoming retrial, Read’s lawyers suggest that if she is being charged again with the previously dropped charges, then it would cause double jeopardy. Read and her legal team have ...

Her lawyers say charging her with those two crimes in her retrial amounts to double jeopardy. Read is accused of hitting her Boston police officer boyfriend John O’Keefe with her SUV and leaving ...