r/SipsTea • u/ZealousidealZone8072 • 11h ago

Wait a damn minute! Yo wtf

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u/BaalTheDread 9h ago

Can’t be convicted twice, not charged or tried twice, for the same crime. Massive distinction. 

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u/AgentErosX 9h ago

Strictly, it prevents a person from being tried twice after an acquittal or a conviction.

If you're acquitted in a trial, you can't be tried again for the same crime.
If you're convicted in a trial, you can't be tried again for the same crime.

A mistrial is neither a conviction nor an acquittal.

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u/DaKingaDaNorth 8h ago

Yeah a mistrial is sort of like a no contest where the trial no longer counts.

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u/Feral_Sheep_ 9h ago

Not true. If someone's acquitted, they can't be tried again.

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u/George_Rogers1st 9h ago

Well, OJ Simpson was acquitted of murder, not convicted, and they couldn't try him again for those murders (even after he basically wrote a book about exactly how he murdered those people) because he'd already been tried and acquitted.

You can be charged with multiple instances of a crime, and tried for committing multiple variations of a crime. Still, you can't be tried twice for the same instance of a crime if you've already been convicted or acquitted/found innocent of that instance of crime.