ACLU to Holder: Zimmerman case is over

breitbart.com ^ | 7/21/2013 | Lisa De Pasquale

[RoosterRedux]

In a letter from the ACLU to Attorney General Eric Holder:

*snip*

Even though the Supreme Court permits a federal prosecution following a state prosecution, the ACLU believes the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Constitution protects someone from being prosecuted in another court for charges arising from the same transaction. A jury found Zimmerman not guilty, and that should be the end of the criminal case.

[onyx]

B T T T ! ! ! ©

[Flick Lives]

When in my mind the ACLU becomes the lesser of two evils, it must be pretty bad.

LOL! Well said.

[familyop]

"...the ACLU believes the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Constitution protects someone from being prosecuted in another court for charges arising from the same transaction."

The real law of our land on the matter, my emphasis in bold:

No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

There's no excuse for any second attempt to prosecute for the same crime, so there's no excuse for a second jurisdiction to make a second such attempt anywhere in the USA.

The propaganda and policy campaign of three decades (propaganda: "tough on crime") by un-American, bipartisan, socialist romanticists will probably come to a close before long, because the big government that they falsely claimed to oppose cannot be supported without a large manufacturing base administered by the kind of men in American leadership before 1850.

[MacNaughton]

34 Holder has no intention of bringing a civil rights case. The administration is just trying to fan the flames as a distraction. Watch what the other hand is doing.

Ding! Ding!! Ding!!! Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!!!

As others have pointed out, this momentum will be utilized in the next assault on the 2nd Amendment. Gun Owners of America thinks that the recent agreement in the Senate negotiated by John McCain to limit filibusters on presidential appointments will be enacted by Harry Reid when the Demo>c<rats counterattack for more gun control.

[DoughtyOne]

It’s shameful when you think of it, the ACLU quoting a document they’ve lifted their leg and whizzed on for decades on end.

[SoFloFreeper]

[Gandalf_The_Gray]

My world is coming undone. The ACLU agrees with me three times in the last three weeks and Jimmuh Carter agreed with me twice in one week. I can only take so much!

I'm with you on that... Alternate universe? Quick, what color is the sky over your house?

Regards,
GtG

[x1stcav]

There is no color to the sky...only shades of gray. (Thank you, Monkees!)

[Weirdad]

Oh, yeah...

I knew that something tasting horrible tends to drain from my sinuses whenever I talk about Catarrh, should have remembered the spelling...

[toldyou]

“I don’t think it worked as well as hoped because there have actually been a fair number of blacks speaking out in the other direction.”

Have you seen this? It’s good.
http://gnli.christianpost.com/video/trayvon-martin-pot-smoking-gives-munchies-and-makes-parano-12760

[toldyou]

I think as more people see that TM isn’t 12 years old, as his photo shows, and evidence arises that he really was a thug, these people are embarassed. They also didn’t know, until now, that GZ associated with, and helped blacks. Now they’re waving the white flag.

[upchuck]

Bump.

[BenLurkin]

http://www.johnspeedie.com/healy/Uh_Yeah.mp3

[freshlook]

I dont trust the aclu as far as i can throw them. I dont care what they have to say.

[Cyclone59]

very good point, especially since the attention span of the low information voter is about 10 days. They will find something else to focus on, like what Kim and Kanye are doing. Perfect examples are, Bengahzi, IRS, Fast and Furious - we see how much is getting done on these little treats.

[Uncle Chip]

The only reason that Holder is keeping the prospect of federal charges open is to protect Tracey Martin, Sybrina Fulton, Ben Crump, Natalie Jackass, Daryl Parks, Jasmine Rand from civil litigation and criminal prosecution.

He is extending the DOJ umbrella of protection over these low lifes and their ill gotten gains to buy them time. But that umbrella is getting heavy .......

[butterdezillion]

And I’ve found myself siding with Putin on both Syria and Snowden.

I think I’m a patriot without a country.

[rcrngroup]

ACLU to Holder: Zimmerman case is over...
In a letter from the ACLU to Attorney General Eric Holder:

Even though the Supreme Court permits a federal prosecution following a state prosecution, the ACLU believes the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Constitution protects someone from being prosecuted in another court for charges arising from the same transaction. A jury found Zimmerman not guilty, and that should be the end of the criminal case.

Wow, this is something. Perhaps the first time that I ever agreed with the ACLU! And they are spot on! 0dumb0 & Holder are trying to milk this for all its worth, pandering & appeasing & inciting the race baitors & demoRAT plantation slaves. But even the ACLU recognized that this is a farce and is calling for Holder to STFU and drop this charade!

[slipper]

Ditto the feeling, everything is upside-down, backwards, and what used to be right is now wrong and vise versa with no end in sight.

[RoosterRedux]

How does that DOJ unbrella work? Haven't heard of that before?

That said, if there is anything the DOJ can do to help the Martins/Fultons...it is at their service!