2018 Vermont Statutes
Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure
Chapter 201 - Pleadings And Proof; Trial
§ 6556 Former acquittal a bar

Universal Citation: 13 V.S.A. § 6556

§ 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 or she 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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