The legal term double jeopardy?

What does the term double jeopardy mean? Not the game the legal definition.The legal term double jeopardy?
Double jeopardy is a procedural defense that forbids a defendant from being tried twice for the same crime on the same set of facts. At common law a defendant may plead autrefois acquit or autrefois convict (a peremptory plea), meaning the defendant has been acquitted or convicted of the same offense.[1] If this issue is raised, evidence will be placed before the court, which will normally rule as a preliminary matter whether the plea is substantiated, and if it so finds, the projected trial will be prevented from proceeding. In many countries the guarantee against being "twice put in jeopardy" is a constitutional right; these include Canada, India, Israel, Mexico and the United States.
All the other posters are correct but the right of a defendant to not be tried twice for the same offense stems from old English law in which the local aristocrat would keep a prisoner indefinitely incarcerated while the aristocrat's prosecutors would repeatedly try to get a successful conviction.



Often, the protection against double jeopardy is spoken as the state "cannot have two bites @ the apple."The legal term double jeopardy?
You can't twice be put in jeopardy of life and limb, hence Double Jeopardy. As everyone else said you can't be tried twice on the SAME charges. They can be similar, but can't be the same ones. Just like you can face a criminal trial and then face a Civil trial.
One can not be charged twice for the same crime. Different charges, maybe, but once found innocent, you cannot be retried, with the same charges in the same case.The legal term double jeopardy?
it means you cant be tried for the same crime twice