" I didn’t know double jeopardy didn’t apply anymore,” said Charles. “There was this chap, Billy Dunlop,” said Simon, “who was charged in nineteen-eighty-nine with the murder of twenty-two-year-old Julie Hogg. Julie’s mother, Mrs. Ming, ran a fifteen-year campaign to change the double jeopardy rule and finally succeeded. In two thousand and six, Dunlop was charged with the murder again and found guilty. "

― M.C. Beaton , Hiss and Hers (Agatha Raisin, #23)