The Fifth amendment gives us the right of double jeopardy. Double jeopardy protects us from being trialed on the same charges. This means that a court cannot convict a person of the same crime twice. WHat i mean by this is that a person can not be convicted for murder nad maslughter if it was the same killing. They must be two different killings in order for then to acctualy be trialed differently.
Without this many people would be convicted twicewhich wouldnt make much sense because it would still be the same case. I do believe this is a good thing because it prevents that sort of thing. Which in all is good.
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