ACT government moves to change double jeopardy trial laws

By Tom McIlroy
Updated April 24 2018 - 9:04pm, first published May 5 2016 - 5:44pm

Possible changes to double jeopardy laws in the ACT would see prosecutors able to use fresh evidence to retry people previously acquitted of serious crimes.

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