Former jeopardy
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 242 U.S. 199 - Benito Lovato v. State of New Mexico · 1916Most cited · 157 citing opinions
jury dismissal as judicial discretion
Whether or not, under the circumstances, it was a necessary formality to dismiss the jury in order to enable the accused to be again arraigned and plead, the action taken was clearly within the bounds of sound judicial discretion.
How often courts cite the case defining “Former jeopardy”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Former jeopardy” — 157 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.