That was always my understanding until I read this passage:
“After a nine-day trial, the eight-person jury — four men and four women — returned the verdict in U.S. District Court in Tucson, Ariz., after a day and a half of deliberation, also tossing charges of false imprisonment, battery and conspiracy against Douglas, Ariz., rancher Roger Barnett.”
I don’t know about you but “false imprisonment”, “battery” and “conspiracy” sound an awful lot like charges in a criminal complaint.
Yeah but you can sue for those things in a civil court. Kind of like wrongful death ....(if you win you get compensation think OJ)