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Double Jeopardy?

Robert talks with Alan Dershowitz, a professor of law at Harvard University and a constitutional law expert. He was a member of O.J. Simpson's criminal defense team and is the author of Reasonable Doubt (Simon and Schuster, 1996). They discuss why the civil trial agains O.J. Simpson is not in violation of the Consitution's "double jeopardy" clause, and the nuances between asking for punitive damages and other kinds of civil penalties.

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