Double Jeopardy: Donald Hume, 1949, by Mark John Maguire

It is a principle sacrosanct in most democratic societies that having once been tried for a crime and acquitted, an individual is protected from further trial: a person cannot be placed in double jeopardy. In the US it is a principle protected by its constitution. After observing this for 800 years, the British government abolished this in 2003. A handful of cases - some notorious - persuaded them that this was necessary. Perhaps the first of these was the case of the murder of Stanley Setty in 1949... #DoubleJeopardy #DonaldHume #StanleySetty #MarkJohnMaguire #TheyGotAwayWithMurder #TrueCrime #MurderConfession