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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.
Double jeopardy is one of the oldest legal concepts in Western civilization. In 355 b.c. , Athenian statesman Demosthenes said, [T]he law forbids the same man to be tried twice on the same issue.. The Romans codified this principle in the Digest of Justinian I in a.d. 533.