Wtf?

He already had a trial and was acquitted. They can retry people over there? Justice was served in this case but overall? That's terrible! Should we retry OJ and Casey Anthony? Zimmerman? I think not. That's unconstitutional!

What do you think?

Don't be like OJ and forget your glove

what a dumbass decision to have a double jeopardy law, and then remove it.

Talk about a regression. Poor UK.

He did murder her though. Him being jailed is justice overall.

How American of you to say that. Isn't justice being served (even after all these years) more important?

Emmett Till's case immediately comes to mind.

wtf is double jeopardy

sounds like some ****** american game show

The UK doesn't even have a written constitution. How can this be unconstitutional?

Retrying Zimmerman et al would be unconstitutional.

Double Jeopardy prevents a person from being retried for the same crime twice

I believe in double jeopardy but I also think, trials by a jury of your peers is stupid as ****. Asking 12 ppl who 99% of the time don't know **** about the law to judge a case is so backwards to me.

If you're going to come for the UK please include important parts of the article

I was saying that this case takes place in the UK. The UK does not have a written constitution and has a completely different legal system than the U.S. so you can't apply American legal reasoning and constitutional law here.

This case would not happen in the U.S. because the U.S. has a written constitution and laws against Double Jeopardy.

Ya but so what? They were already tried. One trial seems like a basic human right. You could even admit it after and welp...

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Retrials can come to light here in the UK when compelling new evidence is uncovered which calls into question the validity of the original case. It's to help avoid/resolve situations where people are either a) originally wrongly convicted of a crime they didn't commit where later evidence proves their innocence, or b) where people are originally found not guilty and new evidence suggests they actually are guilty. What use is a trial if later evidence is ignored? What use is "justice" if it's served to the wrong people?

Please don't even bring the word "constitution" into this because that's an American concept and has literally no weight here. Besides, maybe if the US didn't have a double jeopardy law then people like Zimmerman who are clearly guilty of a crime would actually be served justice

Sis.

I think justice comes first.

In Canada you can't re-try people either, it's not just the US, it was put in there for good reasons...

1. A person is tried for murder & is cleared of all charges
2. Years after the trial, a CCTV video of him literally killing the person emerges


You don't think this person deserves to be sent back to court?

Agreed