If you opened the clip from the timeline, then you're editing that particular clip -- and if you tried to put an In point after an Out point, it would refuse, because it would try to update those In/Out points in the timeline. And it's physically impossible to put an In point after an Out.
If you want to do this, use Match Frame (F) in the timeline to call up the clip; don't double-click it.
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