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To: jiggyboy

That assumes a private citizen can be charged with violating the civil rights of another.


82 posted on 04/12/2012 9:43:35 PM PDT by Houmatt (NObama in 2012!)
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To: Houmatt

Being a private citizen is no barrier at all. Here’s a link from the first page of the google search for “civil rights violation” + “double jeopardy”:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=365&dat=19970306&id=0EtMAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Jz8DAAAAIBAJ&pg=4679,233777

A guy is acquitted of murder, the Feds step right in with Violation of Civil Rights, he’s convicted, it’s not double jeopardy because you see it’s the Feds not a state, next case please.


102 posted on 04/13/2012 7:29:58 AM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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