Saturday, January 10, 2015

If someone receives a pardon and is later sued, does that constitute double jeopardy?doublejeopardy is a right that prohibits someone will not be...

You do not mention what country's laws you are asking
about.  In the United States, at least, double jeopardy applies only to criminal
procedures and not to lawsuits.  Under such reasoning, a person could be sued after
having already been acquitted in a case or pardoned.


As the
following statement from the site I have linked to
says



There
are, however, things that a pardon cannot cover. The first and most obvious is
impeachment, since it is specifically excepted in the Constitution. Civil
liability cannot be excused — a harm against another can still be considered a harm even
if there is no longer any criminal
liability.



So
a pardon only removes a person's criminal liability for
their acts.


Double jeopardy only refers to being tried
criminally for a specific crime after you have already been acquitted (or pardoned) of
that same crime.

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