Amendment V. "Nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb."
They put this in the Bill of Rights to even things up. The government has the money to keep on trying for a conviction, long after any citizen has been driven into bankruptcy. So the Bill of Rights limits the government's efforts to ONE try. If the defendant gets off, then the government is forbidden to try again.
The Trayvon Martin partisans are soap boxing to hit Zimmerman with federal civil rights violations now that he has been acquitted. That's double jeopardy, pure and simple.
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