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Germany's top court overturns double jeopardy reform
Credit: IndiaTimes- Published on October 31, 2023
The German constitutional court ruled that individuals acquitted of murder and war crimes cannot be retried, even with new evidence. A man acquitted in 1981 for rape and murder, later linked by DNA evidence, triggered a petition to overturn the double jeopardy clause. In 2021, the law was changed to allow retrials for murder,...