Monday, September 11, 2006

William Dunlop pleads guilty in first double jeopardy case / Crown Prosecution Service, 11 Sep 2006

http://www.cps.gov.uk/news/pressreleases/152_06.html
"The first man to face a retrial under the double jeopardy rule after his case was referred to the Court of Appeal by the Director of Public Prosecutions, Ken Macdonald, QC, has pleaded guilty today to the murder of Julie Hogg in 1989. The case against William Dunlop was referred to the DPP by the Chief Crown Prosecutor for Cleveland, Martin Goldman, when the double jeopardy law - that a person once acquitted cannot be tried twice for the same offence - was changed by the Criminal Justice Act 2003."