Originally Posted by mugaliens

I still fail to understand how the Constitutional prohibition against being tried twice for the same crime would nevertheless allow for someone to be found not guilty in a criminal court yet allow them to be tried a second time, and found guilty, in a civil court...

Uh... Were they, or where they not found "not guilty" the first time around? And why doesn't that apparently no bearing on the second trial?

And why is there even a second trial, given the law of the land?