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==== Exceptions ==== There are two exceptions to bans on retrying defendants. If a defendant bribed a judge into acquitting him or her, the defendant was not in jeopardy and can be retried.<ref>{{Cite court|litigants=[[Aleman v. Judges of the Circuit Court of Cook County]]|vol=138|reporter=F.3d|opinion=302|court=7th Cir.|date=1998|url=https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=12470920553407736097&hl=en&as_sdt=80000006|access-date=7 September 2019}}</ref> A member of the armed forces can be retried by [[court-martial]] in a military court, even if he or she has been previously acquitted by a civilian court.<ref>{{cite web|author=SBM Blog |url=http://sbmblog.typepad.com/sbm-blog/2012/02/double-jeopardy-and-the-military-a-lurid-case-in-point.html |title=Double Jeopardy and the Military: A Sensational Case in Point β SBM Blog |publisher=Sbmblog.typepad.com |date=14 November 2011 |access-date=14 May 2012}}</ref> This exception was used to prosecute Timothy Hennis for the [[Eastburn family murders]] after his previous trial acquitted him.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2014/07/18/us/death-row-stories-hennis/index.html|title=Triple murder suspect goes from guilty to innocent and back to guilty|publisher=CNN|date=18 July 2014|last=Patterson|first=Thom}}</ref> An individual can be prosecuted by both the United States and an [[Tribal sovereignty in the United States#Tribal state relations: sovereign within a sovereign|Indian tribe]] for the same acts that constituted crimes in both jurisdictions; it was established by the Supreme Court in ''[[United States v. Lara]]'' that as the two are separate sovereigns, prosecuting a crime under both tribal and federal law does not attach double jeopardy.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.justice.gov/osg/brief/united-states-v-lara-brief-merits|title=United States v. Lara β Brief (Merits)|date=21 October 2014|website=justice.gov|access-date=5 March 2020}}</ref>
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