[jack-r-abbit]

> A court cannot make the same one (and pronounce people innocent) as it would, I would expect, make it extremely hard to get the same person back in court given new evidence

The rules of Double Jeopardy already make it pretty damn hard to get a person back into court after being found "not guilty"... even with new evidence. (in the US anyway)

Plus, you don't need to be found innocent. You are innocent... right up until the point that you are found guilty.

[eridius]

You are not innocent. That would be a strange assertion before anything have been proven. You are presumed innocent.

[jack-r-abbit]

ok... you are presumed innocent... right up until the point that you are found guilty. Same difference.

[eridius]

Not really. If you really are innocent then no evidence can possibly change that. But if you're merely presumed innocent, then new evidence can prove your guilt.

And in the case of a civil suit there's no double jeopardy, so you can't even say it doesn't matter.

[jack-r-abbit]

true on that.