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To: ScubaDiver
Question:

Is an "enhanced penalty" for a prior crime which one already served a punishment considered double jeopardy?

If the punishment for the current conviction has extra penalty added for the prior crime, isn't the person being punished a second time for that prior crime?

-PJ

16 posted on 06/10/2021 11:37:01 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (* LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Political Junkie Too

I think that has actually come up before, been litigated. I don’t know how it was resolved. Presumably though, however it was resolved, it worked out for the state because here we are.


22 posted on 06/10/2021 1:18:28 PM PDT by ScubaDiver (Reddit refugee.)
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