FORMER JEOPARDY

By SovConn | June 18, 2016

former jeopardy.The fact of having previously been prosecuted for the same offense. • A

defendant enters a plea of former jeopardy to inform the court that a second prosecution is

improper. Cf. DOUBLE JEOPARDY. [Cases: Double Jeopardy 132.1.][Blacks Law 8th]

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