SELYA, Circuit Judge.
A federal grand jury charged defendants-appellants Dennis P. McIntosh, Janice Douglas, and Herbert H. Cates with multiple counts of mail and wire fraud. See 18 U.S.C. §§ 1342, 1343. After their first trial ended in a hung jury, the appellants moved to dismiss the indictment, asserting that further prosecution would run afoul of the Fifth Amendment's double jeopardy bar. The district court denied this joint motion and the appellants...
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