truthout - Mistrial Could Be End of Watada Case

t r u t h o u t | 02.08
 
 Mistrial Could Be End of Watada Case
 http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020807J.shtml
 
 The opposition of Watada and his defense team to the mistrial, declared by the 
 military judge and eventually endorsed by prosecutors after their case fell 
 apart, opens the door for a double-jeopardy defense. Double jeopardy, which 
 forbids a person from being tried twice for the same crime, does not apply only 
 after a verdict is rendered, but can apply after a jury is empaneled and 
 witnesses have been called.

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