0 to try someone again in a court of law (= examine them to find out if they have committed a crime or not): --
1 to try to do something again because you have not been successful the first time: --
If all cases resulting in trial and acquittal could be retried, a generation or more of cases would be reopened, and every acquittal would become a provisional acquittal.
I know it is said that this principle is already breached under the present law in every case where a defendant is retried after a jury has failed to agree.
The case has to be retried in order to see whether there could or would have been a different result from that which the advocate achieved.
I give the warning, however, that that does not mean that some of the cases most often cited in this context would be likely to be retried.
The case, of course, is retried.
The best way that we can try to help a criminal who has been sentenced is to stop him having his trial retried and being sentenced again.
We are not retrying the inquiry.
What happens is that the man is retried by another jury.
