Bellatrix, Harry and the fight at the Ministry

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 96225

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "grahadh" <grahadh at y...> wrote: 

Dhyana:
> In my understanding of double jeopardy, just because you are 
aquitted of a 
> crime once, doesn't mean that you are then free to commit that 
crime in the 
> future and not be prosecuted, it just means that you cannot be 
tried again for 
> that particular incident.  Is that correct? 

Geoff:
In the UK, certainly yes. The Government is giving some though to the 
scrapping of the double jeopardy rule following one or two high- 
profile cases which have been thrown out on technical issues and it 
is fairly obvious that the accused were probably the right people.