United States is a reminder that the constitutional protection offered by the Fifth Amendment’s double-jeopardy clause is much narrower than many people think. The Fifth Amendment promises that ...

All state constitutions drafted prior to the Bill of Rights contained a double jeopardy provision. The principle was so universal that when James Madison proposed on the floor of the First ...

That's double jeopardy, and the Supreme Court says ... Critics argue it’s unfair, but the Supreme Court says it’s legal. The Fifth Amendment is clear. It says no one “shall be subject ...