In United States v. Aiello, the Second Circuit (Raggi, Chin, Sullivan) remanded the cases of Steven Aiello, Joseph Gerardi, Louis Ciminelli, and ...

A mother who campaigned for a key change in the double jeopardy law so her daughter's killer could be brought to justice has said 'life should mean life' after the Parole Board recommended he be ...

Read's lawyers had argued that she was actually acquitted on two of the counts against her, citing post-trial statements from ...

In Barrett, the justices agreed to decide whether the Fifth Amendment’s ban on double jeopardy prohibits sentencing him for two different crimes based on the same robbery. Last year the Supreme Court ...

[Read] was not actually acquitted of any of the relevant offenses' and therefore retrying her would not amount to double jeopardy. He went on to call any hearing of the former jurors 'probably ...

An attorney representing Karen Read told a federal judge Wednesday morning that her constitutional right to avoid double jeopardy was on the line as prosecutors press forward on a second trial for ...

Julie Hogg was a young mother with her entire life ahead of her until the night she crossed paths with violent bully William Dunlop who ...

Karen Read is taking her double jeopardy fight to the second highest court in the nation. A federal judge denied Read’s petition to drop two of the three criminal charges she faces in state ...

Read’s lawyers argue that trying her again on those charges would amount to double jeopardy, and want those charges tossed. Read’s legal team also wants the judge to call back the jury and ask ...