Third Murder Trial Not Double Jeopardy, 3rd Circ. Says

By Parker Quinlan ( July 23, 2026, 5:44 PM EDT) -- The Third Circuit ruled on Thursday that a Pennsylvania man is not eligible for habeas corpus relief after he was made to face trial over the same murder three separate times, because a state court previously ruled he was correctly convicted and the retrials did not violate double jeopardy rules....

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