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The Fifth Amendment (which bars double jeopardy) is asymmetric. (I believe it is so by design and intent.)

A slippery slope evidentiary argument that would tend to exonerate is not a concern that it would later be applied to retry or change to guilty a previous acquittal, IMO. The courts have been quite clear on this.



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