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 == Double Jeopardy ==
-'''You cannot be prosecuted for a crime that you were already acquitted from before.''' This is called ''double jeopardy'', and it is one of the most fundamental rules of legal practice. Even if new evidence is uncovered after the Not Guilty verdict that leaves no doubt about the defendant's guilt, they can never be tried for that particular crime again.
+'''You cannot be prosecuted twice for the same crime.''' This is called ''double jeopardy'', and it is an important principle in the legal world. Although it means that in theory, once you've been found not guilty for a crime you can never be tried for it again, in practice you can be retried if new evidence surfaced since the verdict that sheds new light on the case. The reverse holds too; if you were found guilty of a crime, but new evidence may prove your innocence, you can also get retried... Unless you've been executed and turned into burgers, of course.
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