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Code · Vermont · Title 13 — Crimes and Criminal Procedure · Chapter 201

§ 6556.

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§ 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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