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True Crime Today and the Hidden Killers podcast. Imagine this. You're on trial for murder.

The jury deliberates for days. They talk, argue, think it through, then hung jury, mistrial.

That's the official outcome. But what if after all that, a few jurors

pull you aside later and say, hey, just so you know, we actually did all agree, you were not guilty,

we just couldn't decide on one other thing. Now, imagine the state says, great, let's do it all again.

Same charges, new jury, let's roll. That's the situation Karen Reid's lawyers say she's in right now. And this week, they brought that fight to the front steps of the United States Supreme Court. April 3, 2025.

While most people were checking out of their work week or figuring out dinner, Karen Reid's legal team was filing

an emergency petition in Washington, D.C., arguing that her retrial violates one of the oldest

rights in American law, protection from double jeopardy. You know, the one that says,

you can't be prosecuted twice for the same crime once you've been acquitted.

It's baked right into the Fifth Amendment. Her lawyers say that's exactly what's happening.

Because according to them, the jury in her first trial already acquitted her.

Not publicly, not officially, but in the jury room behind closed doors. And even though that

verdict never made it to open court, her team argues it still counts. They say retrying her now is

not just unfair. It's unconstitutional. Here's what makes this even more dramatic. They filed this

petition while the second trial was already underway.

Jury selection had started in Dedham, Massachusetts just two days earlier.

Perspective jurors were being questioned, vetted, seated.

Meanwhile, her defense team was making a direct plea to the highest court in the country,

asking them to slam the brakes on a retrial that,

from their perspective, shouldn't be happening at all.

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