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Book Review of Double Jeopardy

Double Jeopardy
Double Jeopardy
Author: Bob Hill
Genre: Nonfiction
Book Type: Paperback
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In America, it is illegal to prosecute a person twice for the same crime, no matter the circumstances. It is intended to protect the innocent. But sometimes it protects the guilty as well.

"In a Kentucky courtroom, frustration, ignorance, incompetence and fate pulled a supposedly open-and-shut case in shocking, unexpected directions-and tied the concept of American justice into knots that might never be undone."