Violent crime - double jeopardy rule may be ended in England - Brief Article
Reason, August, 2001 by Charles Oliver
Violent crime is soaring in Great Britain, despite some of the world's strictest gun laws. So now some in the Labour Party want to restrict criminal defendants' access to trial by jury. They also want to end the double jeopardy rule, which prohibits trying a person twice for the same offense.
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