Criminal
Oct. 3, 2013
Riverside prosecutors challenging California double jeopardy standard
Prosecutors are petitioning the state Supreme Court to review such issues in the first case to challenge California's long held precedent on double jeopardy after a 2012 U.S. Supreme Court decision shed new light on the issue.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
RIVERSIDE - For more than 30 years, California law governing double jeopardy has remained relatively untouched. The state is among several that allow a defendant to be acquitted of a crime and secure a mistrial if a jury deadlocks on a lesser, included offense. The defendant cannot be tried again for the greater offense.
Riverside County prosecutors, however, are petitioning the state Supreme Court to ...
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