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jeopardy, in law, condition of a person charged with a crime and thus in danger of punishment. At common law common law, system of law that prevails in England and in countries colonized by England. The name is derived from the medieval theory that the law administered by the king's courts represented the common custom of the realm, as opposed to the custom of local ..... Click the link for more information. a defendant could be exposed to jeopardy for the same offense only once; exposing a person twice is known as double jeopardy. Double jeopardy is prohibited in federal and state courts by the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. The concept refers to an offense, not to an act giving rise to an offense; therefore, it is possible to try a person for multiple violations arising from a single act (e.g., assault, attempted murder, and carrying a deadly weapon). Jeopardy does not exist until the jury jury, body convened to make decisions of fact in legal proceedings.
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| Though the script, by first-time screenwriter Dave Collard (watch out; his only previous listed credit is for the TV cartoon ``Family Guy''), starts out a leisurely enough, even sultry pace, once all of the plot gizmos start whirring, the sudden jeopardies and split-second saves pile up so deliriously it almost makes you forget that every single twist is exactly what you'd expected it would be an hour earlier. He therefore advises fathers to appoint a wise and honest guardian for their sons, lest the youths "run headlong into overmany jeopardies, as Ulysses had done many times if Pallas had nor always governed him, if he had not used to stop his ears with wax, to bind himself to the mast of his ship" (62-63). But whenever people put their mind to it, instead of their hearts, they come up with the fear about the risks and jeopardies of putting children at Belmont,'' Tokofsky said. |
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