Dictionary:

jeopardy

  (jĕp'ər-dē)

1. Risk of loss or injury; peril or danger.
2. Law. A defendant's risk or danger of conviction when put on trial.

[Middle English juperti, from Old French jeu parti, even game, uncertainty : jeu, game (from Latin iocus, joke, game) + parti, past participle of partir, to divide (from Latin partīre, from pars, part-, part; see part).]

Danger, Risk.
Example: Property pledged as Security for a delinquent loan is in jeopardy of Foreclosure.

noun

Exposure to possible harm, loss, or injury: danger, endangerment, hazard, imperilment, peril, risk. See safety/danger.

Definition: danger, trouble
Antonyms: protection, safety, security

Danger; hazard; peril. In a criminal action, the danger of conviction and punishment confronting the defendant.

A person is in jeopardy when he or she is placed on trial before a court of competent jurisdiction upon an indictment or information sufficient in form and substance to uphold a conviction, and a jury is charged or sworn. Jeopardy attaches after a valid indictment is found and a petit jury is sworn to try the case.

See: double jeopardy.

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• Genre: Thriller
• Director: Lawrence Schiller
• Main Cast: Bruce Boxleitner, Rachel Ward, Sela Ward
• Release Year: 1992
• Country: US
• Run Time: 101 minutes

Plot

Cast

• Bruce Boxleitner - Jack Hart
• Rachel Ward - Lisa Burns
• Sela Ward - Karen Hart

Credit

Double Jeopardy
Double Jeopardy DVD cover
Directed by	Bruce Beresford
Produced by	Leonard Goldberg
Written by	David Weisberg Douglas Cook
Starring	Tommy Lee Jones Ashley Judd Bruce Greenwood
Music by	Normand Corbeil
Cinematography	Peter James
Editing by	Mark Warner
Distributed by	Paramount
Release date(s)	September 24, 1999
Running time	105 min.
Language	English
Budget	$70 million
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Double Jeopardy is a film made in 1999 starring Tommy Lee Jones and Ashley Judd, about a woman who is framed for the murder of her husband.

Plot

Elizabeth "Libby" Parsons (Judd) holds the belief, subsequently proven correct, that her husband, Nick Parsons (Bruce Greenwood), is still alive and had staged his own death for the purpose of falsely convicting her of murder. She serves several years in prison and then emerges bent on finding her husband and son, so as to take her revenge on the former and rescue the latter.

The movie explores the ramifications of a misinterpretation of the legal doctrine of double jeopardy, which is a constitutional right in the United States granted by the Fifth Amendment. A fellow prison inmate advises Libby that she could kill her husband in the middle of Times Square and the police would be powerless to do anything about it because of double jeopardy, because she had already been convicted once for his murder and served time. Both Libby and Lehman repeat this theory later in the movie in order to frighten Nick in the climactic confrontation scene.

Cast

• Tommy Lee Jones - Travis Lehman
• Ashley Judd - Elizabeth "Libby" Parsons
• Bruce Greenwood - Nicholas "Nick" Parsons
• Benjamin Weir - Matty Parsons, age 4
• Jay Brazeau - Bobby Long
• John MacLaren - Rudy
• Ed Evanko - Warren
• Annabeth Gish - Angela "Angie" Green

Legal Theory

Double jeopardy only applies to a single set of facts (a single incident). Just as it would be two separate offenses (and two separate permissible prosecutions) to steal from someone on two separate occasions, so it would be two separate offenses to murder someone twice ^[1].

External links

• Double Jeopardy at the Internet Movie Database
• Movie stills
• Straight Dope article on Double Jeopardy, including discussion of this film

References

1. ^ http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mjeopardy.htm>

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Common misspelling(s) of jeopardy

• jeapardy

Dansk (Danish)
n. - fare, risiko

idioms:

• double jeopardy    dømme to gange for samme forbrydelse, lovgivning der forhindrer at man kan blive dømt to gange for samme forbrydelse

Nederlands (Dutch)
gevaar, gevaar als gevolg van berecht worden

Français (French)
n. - péril, danger

idioms:

• double jeopardy    (US, Jur) remise en accusation

Deutsch (German)
n. - Gefahr

idioms:

• double jeopardy    zweite strafrechtl. Verfolgung für dasselbe Verbrechen

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - διακινδύνευση, διακύβευση, κίνδυνος

idioms:

• double jeopardy    (νομ.) δεύτερη δίκη για το ίδιο έγκλημα

Italiano (Italian)
rischio, pericolo, immanenza di condanna

idioms:

• double jeopardy    secondo processo ad un imputato già processato per la stessa accusa

Português (Portuguese)
n. - perigo (m), risco (m)

idioms:

• double jeopardy    prejuízo em dobro

Русский (Russian)
опасность, риск, подсудность

idioms:

• double jeopardy    вторичное уголовная ответственности за одно преступ.

Español (Spanish)
n. - peligro, riesgo

idioms:

• double jeopardy    segundo procesamiento por el mismo delito

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - fara

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
危险

idioms:

• double jeopardy    一罪不受两次审理原则, 禁止法院重复起诉同一罪行的法律原则

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 危險

idioms:

• double jeopardy    一罪不受兩次審理原則, 禁止法院重複起訴同一罪行的法律原則

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 위험, 위태한 상태

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 危険

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) خطر, تهلكه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮סכנה‬

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