When a case is at trial and the outcome of the case is in jeopardy and subject to an unbiased decision which has not been predetermined. A legal case where a jury is fixed, biased and will make a decision that is arbitrary means that jeopardy may not have attached. For example, if jurors are bribed to render a not guilty verdict, the freedom of a criminal defendant who is at trial was never in jeopardy since the outcome of the case was predetermined.