Liberia

Criminal Procedure Law

PART I
Introductory

Chapter 3. DOUBLE JEOPARDY

ยง3.2. Effect on further prosecutions of an acquittal or other discharge on the merits, and of a conviction.

When a defendant is acquitted or otherwise discharged on the merits upon an indictment or other charge, or is convicted thereon for any offense, or during trial the prosecution thereof is improperly
terminated, he cannot thereafter be indicted or otherwise charged and tried in the following cases :

(a)For the same offense or any degree thereof ;
(b)For an attempt to commit the offense so charged or any degree thereof ;
(c)For any offense based on any act set for the in the indictment or other charge, or arising from any practice, transaction, or episode set for the therein, including any act comprising a part thereof, or two or more such connected together or constituting parts of a common scheme or plan.

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