NODE baa62b33Re: 'Off' the parking pigs! (fwd)
Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com>Sat, 6 Dec 1997 00:49:42 +0800
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> Date: Wed, 03 Dec 1997 14:56:10 -0600
> From: TruthMonger <tm@dev.null>
> Subject: Re: 'Off' the parking pigs!
> In the jury's humble opinion, the prosecution didn't prove its case.
> This is no problem for the government. They have the deep pockets
> required to prosecute as many times as needed to refine their attempts
> to manipulate the minds of the jurors, or to get lucky and have a few
> members of a split jury vote to convict because they don't want to
> blow their trip to the Stones' concert.
No the police only get one shot. If they try to prosecute the individual on
the same charge *after* a jury has rendered a verdict then that is double
jeopardy.
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NODE 9a048efdRe: 'Off' the parking pigs! (fwd)
Eric Seggebruch - NYC SE <eric.seggebruch@East.Sun.COM>Thu, 11 Dec 1997 03:56:56 +0800
Actually it is possible for the government to get more than one shot at
a defendant through the doctrine of dual sovereignty (state and
federal). That is how they got the police officers involved in the
Rodney King incident. When the state court (California) jury let them
off, the feds prosecuted them for civil rights violations in federal
court.
There you have it.
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