The Double-Jeopardy Clause Of The 5th Amendment

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In the 1999 film Double-Jeopardy starring Ashley Judd and Tommy Lee Jones the “Double-
Jeopardy” clause of the 5th Amendment was questioned with a particular circumstance. In the movie, the lead character Libby has a great life with her husband and young boy. The husband recently had a business success and bought a yacht to celebrate. After a long night on the water with the family Libby passed out drunk from too much wine. When she wakes she is covered in blood and finds a knife next to her. Soon after she is arrested by the coast guard and found guilty for the murder or her son and husband by circumstantial evidence. She soon later finds reason to believe her husband left with her son for another woman and set up the whole thing. When Libby is in jail she meets someone who tells her that if she is already convicted for the murder of her …show more content…

When Libby is released from jail her soul mission is to kill her husband and take revenge all within protection of the “Double-Jeopardy” clause of the
5th amendment of the Constitution.
I do not believe the “Double-Jeopardy” clause would apply for this circumstance. I take this stance because if Libby killed her husband in broad daylight she would be committing a different crime. The crime committed on the boat and the one committed in broad daylight (if she would have killed him) would be two separate crimes therefore the “Double-Jeopardy” clause would

not be applicable. The clause states that you cannot be convicted for the same crime twice. Since these two instances are in different places and times they are not the same

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