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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.
25 Hunter, 103 S. Ct. at 678.26 The Double Jeopardy Clause operates as a presumption against a finding that the legis-lature intends to define multiple offenses and to prescribe multiple punishments, a presump-tion that can be overcome only by clear and unmistakeable evidence.