freedom from double jeopardy

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   a civil right guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution

   Broadercivil right

   law

Questions about freedom from double jeopardy

What does freedom from double jeopardy mean?

freedom from double jeopardy means "a civil right guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution".

Is freedom from double jeopardy a common word?

freedom from 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.