The sole issue in this case is whether double jeopardy precludes retrial of the defendants after the trial judge, on his own motion, declared a mistrial before their criminal cases were submitted to the jury. We hold that it does not.
As a result of their participation in a demonstration at the construction site of the Seabrook nuclear power plant, the defendants were charged with criminal trespass under...
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