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To: Lurking Libertarian
I'd like to see the USSC address a double-jeopardy case, where the Feds prosecute somebody for the same thing the state prosecuted them for and failed.

I don't think anybody ever intended for the state government to get one shot and the federal government to get a second.

Make up your mind who's in charge, at least.

2 posted on 10/19/2010 12:22:40 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The only stable state is one in which all men are equal before the law." -- Aristotle)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
I'd like to see the USSC address a double-jeopardy case, where the Feds prosecute somebody for the same thing the state prosecuted them for and failed.

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."

6 posted on 10/19/2010 12:31:16 PM PDT by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
A lot of bad law was originally promulgated to advance the civil rights agenda in the 60s.

A classic case of “do the ends justify the means?”.

And assuming they do, how do you reclaim the power surrendered to the courts and the federal government?

7 posted on 10/19/2010 12:35:10 PM PDT by chesley (Eat what you want, and die like a man.)
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