All state constitutions drafted prior to the Bill of Rights contained a double jeopardy provision. The principle was so universal that when James Madison proposed on the floor of the First ...

Rapper A$AP Rocky asserted his Fifth Amendment rights on Tuesday during his ongoing court proceedings, where he confronted ...

That's double jeopardy, and the Supreme Court says ... but the Supreme Court says it’s legal. The Fifth Amendment is clear. It says no one “shall be subject for the same offense to be twice ...

The state’s highest court on Tuesday denied an appeal by Karen Read’s legal team to have two of the charges against her dismissed on double jeopardy grounds, clearing the way for her retrial beginning ...