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Arrested Camorra boss won damages (3)

Guilty, but can't be tried again due to double jeopardy

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(changes 'indemnity' to 'jeopardy', subtitle and last line).
    (ANSA) - Naples, April 9 - A Camorra boss arrested on mafia charges Monday in the past won damages of 110,000 euros for unjust detention over the murder of a migrant, sources said Monday. Antonio Esposito was definitively cleared of killing the immigrant for petty reasons, judicial sources said.
    Mafia informants have since given allegedly conclusive evidence that Espostio did, in fact, murder the immigrant, the source said.
    But he cannot be tried for the alleged crime again because of double jeopardy, the principle that you cannot be tried twice for the same crime if found innocent the first time, they said.
   

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