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In American criminal law, Double Jeopardy protects a defendant from being punished twice for the same offense.1 In civil law, which governs malpractice in healthccare, defendant midwives can be punished twice for the same offense. Although the criminal version of Double Jeopardy does not apply in civil cases, the term is defined as “a risk or disadvantage incurred from two sources”