To: Lurking Libertarian
SCOTUS has heard such cases, and has said that double jeopardy doesn't apply when one prosecution is by a state and another is by the feds. Google "dual sovereignty doctrine." To quote Sam Clemens, "the law is a ass."
10 posted on
10/19/2010 12:42:41 PM PDT by
E. Pluribus Unum
("The only stable state is one in which all men are equal before the law." -- Aristotle)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
To quote Sam Clemens, "the law is a ass." I think that was Charles Dickens, but yeah, you're right.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
To quote Sam Clemens, "the law is a ass." I think that was Charles Dickens, but yeah, you're right.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson