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2009 Vermont Code
Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure
Chapter 201 - PLEADINGS AND PROOF; TRIAL (Contains: §§ 6501 – 6565)
§ 6556 - Former acquittal a bar
§ 6556. Former acquittal a bar
A person shall not be held to answer on a second complaint, information or indictment for an offense of which he was acquitted by a jury upon the merits on a former trial. Such acquittal may be pleaded in bar of a subsequent prosecution for the same offense, notwithstanding defects in the form or substance of the complaint, information or indictment on which he or she was acquitted.
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