Double Jeopardy means a defendant cannot be tried twice for the same what?

• A. Crime
• B. Case
• C. Sentence
• D. Misdemeanor

Answer: (B)

Double jeopardy protects against being tried again for the same offense. The key idea is the crime itself—not the court case or the punishment. Once a person is acquitted or convicted of a particular crime (or the case ends after a mistrial on that charge), they can’t be prosecuted again for that same offense. The term that matches this concept among the options is the crime; a case is the legal action, a sentence is the punishment, and a misdemeanor is just a category of offense, not the thing that can’t be retried.