Frank Palko thought the Fifth Amendment ban on double jeopardy applied to his case because

Palko was first convicted of a lesser offense, but the state appealed and he was tried again for the same killing, this time for first-degree murder. He argued that this second trial violated the Fifth Amendment’s protection against double jeopardy. The correct choice is that he was tried twice for the same crime.

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