This law may ensure the guilty will not escape punishment. We believe that the nature of law is meant to bring justice to a society. Law is created to ensure the innocent to go free and the guilty to be punished as everyone have to pay for what they had done. But under the double jeopardy law, the acquitted person is immunated from any future prosecution even when new convincing evidence is presented or he admit his guilt. Let me show you an example, in 2009, a cleared footballer admits killing his ex-girlfriend at a retrial when new evidence is found to overturn the previous verdict. But under double jeopardy law, he is remained set free as he is acquitted at the previous trial. This is so unfair as we should charge an individual by looking at the evidence and confession of the guilt but not whether they had a trial
This law may ensure the guilty will not escape punishment. We believe that the nature of law is meant to bring justice to a society. Law is created to ensure the innocent to go free and the guilty to be punished as everyone have to pay for what they had done. But under the double jeopardy law, the acquitted person is immunated from any future prosecution even when new convincing evidence is presented or he admit his guilt. Let me show you an example, in 2009, a cleared footballer admits killing his ex-girlfriend at a retrial when new evidence is found to overturn the previous verdict. But under double jeopardy law, he is remained set free as he is acquitted at the previous trial. This is so unfair as we should charge an individual by looking at the evidence and confession of the guilt but not whether they had a trial