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Double jeopardy : the history, the law /
In the first book-length book on the subject in over a quarter century, George C. Thomas III advances an integrated theory of double jeopardy law, a theory anchored in historical, doctrinal, and philosophical method. Despite popular belief, double jeopardy has never been a limitation on the legislat...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
©1998.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In the first book-length book on the subject in over a quarter century, George C. Thomas III advances an integrated theory of double jeopardy law, a theory anchored in historical, doctrinal, and philosophical method. Despite popular belief, double jeopardy has never been a limitation on the legislature. It functions instead to keep prosecutors and judges from imposing more than one criminal judgment for the same offense. Determining when seemingly different offenses constitute the ""same offense"" is no easy task. Nor is it always easy to determine when a defendant has suffered more than one c |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 349 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-340) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0585424985 9780585424989 9780814782330 0814782337 9780814784419 0814784410 |