{"data":{"id":"us-ak/as-12.20.020","jurisdiction":"us-ak","citation":"AS 12.20.020","heading":"When acquittal or dismissal is not a bar.","body":"If the defendant is acquitted on the ground of a variance between the charge and the proof, or the charge is dismissed upon an objection to its form or substance, or discharged for want of prosecution, without a judgment of acquittal or in bar of another prosecution, it is not an acquittal of the crime and does not bar a subsequent prosecution for the same crime.","path":["Title 12. Code of Criminal Procedure.","Chapter 20. Bars to Actions."],"source_url":"https://www.akleg.gov/basis/statutes.asp#12.20.020","current_through":"Alaska Statutes 2025 (34th Legislature, 2025-2026)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-02T06:16:46Z","sha256":"434cf5fa9fe9b485357574a0a63f67bf32da892712e3a64e23953721a15e8120","source_id":"us-ak","stale":false,"prev":"us-ak/as-12.20.010","next":"us-ak/as-12.20.030"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}