I'm Alice and I'm Brett and this is the prosecutor's legal proof.

And this is the prosecutor's legal proof. And then. Oh, Welcome back to the prosecutor's legal briefs. I'm your host Alice and I'm joined

as always by my double trouble co-host Brett.

Hello Alice, you're so good, I just love your puns.

They get such a kick out of them.

You know, since we're recording this with like live and I see your face I

used to think you really meant that that I was great at puns but now that I see your

face I realize you're just making fun of me. That is not true at all.

That is a, I am offended deeply offended.

Nothing offends you deeply, truly.

You're un, well that's true. Nothing offends you deeply truly you

you. Thank goodness except for maybe constitutional violations because

today we are back with the legal briefs to talk about constitutional protections and in particular

something that I think maybe befuddles a good number of people and that would be

double jeopardy what it means what is the constitutional basis for it why does it even exist what's

the rationale behind double jeopardy when does it apply and you know what if what if we

find out after there's been a trial and a

acquittal brand new information surely justice means that we can scrap

double jeopardy and do something about it right? Well we're here to answer your questions about that.

Yeah, and Double Jeopardy is one of those things that people, I don't, it's like they cannot wrap

their head around it because in fact it's a really simple

principle but people just and we see this a lot we did an episode on Casey

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