[ColoradoTree]

Ferrari - I'm dying to know what a "retried bean" is and what greater impact it has on the earth's atmosphere?  Let the Mexican food jokes fly forth!

I don't see why this is a big deal. The Constitution's prohibition of double jeopardy has never been held to extend to beans, as Robert Horn emphasized repeatedly in his poli sci course on constitutional law.

"[N]or shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb...."  U.S. Const., Amend. V. 

Pretty straightforward, really.  A bean is not a person, and cannot be said to have limbs.  Whether beans have "lives," however, has not been addressed by caselaw. 

I wonder about the necessity of even holding trials for beans, really.  Seems like a waste of judicial resources when beans lack brains, and thus lack the ability to form the culpable mental state which is a necessary element of most offenses.  I should think that summarily whipping or boiling the rogue beans would be perfectly consistent with the Constitution. 

[ColoradoTree]

Ferrari - I'm dying to know what a "retried bean" is and what greater impact it has on the earth's atmosphere?  Let the Mexican food jokes fly forth!

I don't see why this is a big deal. The Constitution's prohibition of double jeopardy has never been held to extend to beans, as Robert Horn emphasized repeatedly in his poli sci course on constitutional law.

"[N]or shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb...."  U.S. Const., Amend. V. 

Pretty straightforward, really.  A bean is not a person, and cannot be said to have limbs.  Whether beans have "lives," however, has not been addressed by caselaw. 

I wonder about the necessity of even holding trials for beans, really.  Seems like a waste of judicial resources when beans lack brains, and thus lack the ability to form the culpable mental state which is a necessary element of most offenses.  I should think that summarily whipping or boiling the rogue beans would be perfectly consistent with the Constitution.