Does the constitutional prohibition of double jeopardy bar a second trial after a court-declared mistrial in the first trial? The inquiry in this case centers on whether granting a mistrial was a "manifest necessity."
The state introduced Sandra Kemper's confessions to setting a fatal fire in her home. The confessions came after police told Kemper that she had failed a polygraph test...
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