Quote (Helloween7 @ Aug 21 2018 07:01pm)
I'm sure the judge who's got the eyes of the whole press on him is going to forget what he can or cannot do. And I'm also sure the defense attorney(s) conveniently forget to object because they too have forgotten what can be done in matters of law.
Ghot the legal expert has doubts though.
:)
Defense attorneys can't object to what a judge says. Just to other attorneys.
Double jeopardy says you can't try a person twice for the same crime. The jury after 4 days only found Manafort guilty of 8 of 18 crimes.
So the judge declares a mistrial and gives the prosecutors until the 29th of August to decide if they want to retry Manafort for the other 10 counts. If the judge declares anything BUT a mistrial he can't retry Manafort.
I'm kind of curious about whether he declared a mistrial for a valid reason, or not. I'm pretty sure the supreme court will be curious as well.
There seems to be a lot of iffy shyt going down in the courts right now...that the Supreme Court is NOT convened.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Jeopardy_ClauseQuote
The Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides: "[N]or shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb..."[1] The four essential protections included are prohibitions against, for the same offense:
retrial after an acquittal;
retrial after a conviction;
retrial after certain mistrials; and
multiple punishment
Jeopardy attaches in jury trial when the jury is empaneled and sworn in, in a bench trial when the court begins to hear evidence after the first witness is sworn in, or when a court accepts a defendant's plea unconditionally.[2] Jeopardy does not attach in a retrial of a conviction that was reversed on appeal on procedural grounds (as opposed to evidentiary insufficiency grounds), in a retrial for which "manifest necessity" has been shown following a mistrial, and in the seating of another grand jury if the prior one refuses to return an indictment.
This post was edited by Ghot on Aug 21 2018 05:16pm
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