Vermont · Vermont Statutes — Title 13, Crimes and Criminal Procedure
Vt. Stat. (Crimes) § 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, notwithsta
What this law says, in plain English
A person who was acquitted by jury on the merits cannot be prosecuted again for the same offense, and may use that acquittal as a legal defense against a new prosecution.
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