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Less than six months before a scheduled retrial, attorneys for a north Mississippi man acquitted by a judge in 2023 for stabbing a customer in the neck at a New Albany restaurant are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to look at double jeopardy issues in the case.
Attorneys for Lane Mitchell argue that another trial for attempted first-degree murder would violate the Fifth Amendment clause protecting defendants from being tried twice for the same crime.
The legal team argues that Mitchell’s case is the proper vehicle for the high court to provide clarification and uniformity about a fundamental tenet of constitutional law. The Mississippi Court of Appeals issued a 5-4 ruling in July 2025 allowing Mitchell to be retried, which also found the acquittal was not based on the evidence…