can you do that? try the guy twice for the same thing?
They’ll use a different charge: civil rights violations. Isn’t that what they did to the cops who beat “the motorist” Rodney King?
Marxist governments can do whatever they please.
Its not the same thing to the law - they deprived him of his civil right to live - thats what they will charge him with.
Of course, they will certainly issue warrants for the arrest of the black panthers in Phila also...
It's exactly what Goerge Bush Sr. did to the cops in the Rodney King case, after the black community didn't like the outcome and started rioting. They don't re-try them on the same charge, they try them on a civil rights charge
We have a new rule of law, now. Verdict first, trial afterwards.
Only if he is white.
If he is tried he will be tried for violating the decedent's federally-guaranteed civil rights in a federal court, which are different charges in a different jurisdiction.
One thing about the whole story that strikes me as very questionable is Ofc. Mehserle's contention that he confused his sidearm with his taser and that he intended to tase Grant, not shoot him.
This claim is simply not believable. The weapons look and feel and weigh differently from one another and in these situations muscle memory kicks in.
It seems very unlikely that he would have drawn from the opposite side and pulled out a heavier weapon with a different handfeel and not have noticed. This would be plausible if he had switched the normal positioning of the respective holsters, but he hadn't - they were where they usually were.
Yep, they shouldn’t be able to do so, but they can. The first President Bush started this crap when he didn’t like the verdict of the Rodney King trial. Federal charges on race crimes.
What happened to our freedom from double jeapardy?