double jeopardy

1. 1.

   the prosecution of a defendant for a criminal offense for which he has already been tried; prohibited in the fifth amendment to the United States Constitution

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Questions about double jeopardy

What does double jeopardy mean?

double jeopardy means "the prosecution of a defendant for a criminal offense for which he has already been tried; prohibited in the fifth amendment to the United States Constitution".

Is double jeopardy a common word?

double jeopardy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.