COTTER, C. J.
This appeal raises the issue whether the double jeopardy clause of the United States constitution prohibits a third trial of a defendant who successfully petitioned for a new trial after his first trial, which resulted in a conviction, and whose second trial terminated in a mistrial when the jury could not agree on a verdict.
The defendant was arrested and charged with three counts of murder alleged to have occurred in August, 1972. On September...
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