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Mon 12 Dec 2008Proposed new laws to give DPP more power
THE LEGAL rule of double jeopardy is to be curtailed in certain circumstances under new criminal law proposals announced yesterday by Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern.
Under the rule, which dates back to Norman times, no person should be put at risk of being tried twice for the same offence.
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