Liberia

Criminal Procedure Law

PART I
Introductory

Chapter 3. DOUBLE JEOPARDY

ยง3.1 .Cases in which and time when jeopardy attaches.

The doctrine of double jeopardy shall be applicable to all criminal prosecutions. Jeopardy attaches when a person has been placed on trial before a court of competent jurisdiction under a valid indictment or complaint upon which he has been arraigned and to which he has pleaded, and a proper jury has been impaneled and sworn to try the issue raised by the plea or, if the case is properly being tried by a court without a jury, after the court has begun to hear evidence thereon. Termination of the trial thereafter by the court because of manifest necessity, however, shall not bar another prosecution for the offenses set for the in the indictment or complaint.

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