Double Jeopardy (film)

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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
IMDb profile

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.

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Elizabeth 'Libby' Parsons (Judd) holds the belief, subsequently proven correct, that her husband Nick Parsons (Bruce Greenwood) is still alive and 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 to the US constitution. A fellow prison inmate advises Libby 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 (Jones) repeat this theory later in the movie in order to frighten Nick in the climactic confrontation scene.

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].

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