Delineate circumstances in which a criminal defendant may in fact be tried a second time for the same act

What will be an ideal response?


• There are several circumstances which will allow a defendant to be triend a second time for the same criminal act.
• A state's prosecution of a crime will not prevent a separate federal prosecution of the same crime, and vice versa.
• Double jeopardy does not preclude different states from prosecuting the same person for multiple crimes that take place in different jurisdictions.
• A hung jury is not an acquittal for the purposes of double jeopardy.

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What will be an ideal response?

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1. 3-D printing a. A service launched after 9/11 by the FBI to assist agencies in making data correlations and in predictive policing 2. Big data b. Unmanned aerial vehicles or drones 3. BYOD c. A branch of technology involving the design, construction, and function of robots 4. Cloud computing d. Where incoming court documents are scanned and processed 5. Electronic court records e. A device worn by both inmates and correctional officers for tracking purposes 6. N-DEx f. The use of telecommunications technology to remotely diagnosis and treat inmates 7. RFID g. A process whereby a solid object can be made from a digital model 8. Robotics h. Applying tremendous computing power to massive and often highly complex sets of information 9. Telemedicine i. Using a network of remote servers hosted on the Internet to store, manage, and process data 10. UAV j. Allows employees to bring their personal mobile devices (laptops, tablets, and smart phones) to the workplace

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A guideline for completing the Presentence Investigation Report (PSI), _______________, refers to the PSI reporting officer should use technical words and phrases only if they are commonly known among practitioners in the criminal justice and/or court system.

a. brevity b. sources of information c. technical words and phrases d. style and format

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