When the defendant is convicted or acquitted or has been once placed in jeopardy upon an accusatory pleading, the conviction, acquittal, or jeopardy is a bar to another prosecution for the offense charged in such accusatory pleading, or for an attempt to commit the same, or for an offense necessarily included therein, of which he might have been convicted under that accusatory pleading.
Cal. Penal Code § 1023
Plea
Applied in 48 court decisions — leading case 13 Cal. 3d 592 - Bunnell v. Superior Court (1975)
Most recently applied in 697 F. Supp. 2d 1160 - United States v. Carothers (March 2010)
Amended by Stats. 1951, Ch. 1674.
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