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Split and merge into it. Answered by The Community. Making the world better, one answer at a time. The legal term 'double jeopardy' is a legal defence whereby an accused person cannot be tried for the same offence twice based on the same fact if they have already been convicted or acquitted of the same offence.
The double jeopardy clause effectively precludes the government from charging you with the same crime twice, but there's still civil law. That means a single illegal act can, and often does, result in both criminal and civil cases against the same defendant. Think back to the O.J. Simpson case, for example.