The 5th Amendment guarantees that defendants can't face 'double jeopardy,' which means the government can't prosecute a person a second time for the same crime if the jury returns a verdict. Only if the jury doesn't reach a decision can prosecutors elect to retry the case.

Robert Shapiro

Robert Shapiro

Amendment Case Crime Decision Double Elect Face Government Guarantees Jeopardy Jury Means Only Person Prosecutors Reach Returns Same Second Time Verdict Which

Related Quotes

Criminal cases require strategy, and prosecutors should attempt to prove only what can be proved.

— Robert Shapiro

AttemptCasesCriminal

You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.

— Rush Limbaugh

AmendmentCaseFails

The only thing that holds the government back from just going ballistic on us is the Second Amendment. When we become disarmed, it's over. It's over.

— Derrick Grayson

AmendmentBackBecome

...and by the way, Mr.Speaker, the Second Amendment is not for killing little ducks and leaving Huey and Dewey and Louie without an aunt and uncle. It's for hunting politicians, like in Grozny, and in the colonies in 1776, or when they take your independence away.

— Robert Dornan

AnimalsIndependencePoliticians

If this jury has reached a verdict and if you have some kind of a problem now and if you remove somebody, the taint is overwhelming, so it appears to me there's no way to avoid a mistrial.

— Mark Geragos

JuryKindProblem