When can a defendant not assert double-jeopardy protection?
What will be an ideal response?
Double jeopardy does not apply if the second prosecution is based on conduct committed after the first prosecution.
If the defendant is responsible for the second prosecution, double jeopardy does not apply.
If the defense plea-bargains over the prosecution's objection, double-jeopardy protection does not apply.
Double jeopardy does not apply when the Court hearing the first offense lacks jurisdiction to try the second offense.
The double-jeopardy clause does not prohibit the government from retrying a defendant on capital or first-degree murder charges if the jury in the defendant's first trial was deadlocked on a charge of manslaughter, resulting in a mistrial.
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