Posted on 07/12/2011 4:09:56 PM PDT by walsh
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Casey Anthony was acquitted last week in state court of killing her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee.
Now, a new website, change.org, is petitioning to have Anthony tried for the same crimes, but this time in federal court. It's called the dual sovereignty rule.
"The double jeopardy clause has been interpreted to allow two prosecutions as long as they're by different sovereigns," said B.J. Priester, a professor at Florida Coastal School of Law.
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What do the legal beagles here think?
Worth following.
Well, she was deprived of her civil right to life... 1983 action?
Didn’t the Rodney King trials prove that the state can try people until they get the verdict the state wants?
no she can not..it’s not a FEDERAL LAW she broke....get your facts straight
Just wondering about lying to the FBI? Is that breaking a federal law?
They might not be able to do this. However, if there is anything else that the feds could go after her for, they sure could.
I know that the courts have decided otherwise, but FReepers ought to hold the prohibition against double jeopardy sacred.
ML/NJ
Travesty though it was, it was a state level murder case, and the Federal government should have no place there.
Ping
What federal laws did she break?
Bah. If there is one thing I know about modern Americans, it’s that we examine our principles on a case by case basis.
I think we should accept the verdict and let it go.
It sucks but it isn’t worth giving the feds more power.
This kind of thing came out of the civil rights era when racist jurors refused to convict obviously guilty murderers. The feds made them federal crimes and moved them to jurisdictions where they could get convictions.
Consider this: O.J. is in prison for 40 years (Whatever that means.)Let’s give this person some time to find her true destiny.
The problem was that there was not evidence to convict her. How would trying a person with the same lack of evidence be meaningful?
The crime would be a “civil rights violation”, same as the Federal Government usually uses.
A better solution is a wrongful death lawsuit, like was used against OJ Simpson. That is NOT double jeopardy, and it is much easier to prove the case against the accused.
And really that is the problem, that everyone “knows” that she is guilty, but there is still enough doubt to avoid conviction in a criminal case. It’s much easier to win a lawsuit. She wouldn’t be in jail, but at least there would be a verdict of guilt.
Speak for yourself, Pal. I even think it's obscene that OJ could be tried "civilly." A jury (such as it was) heard the case and declared him "not guilty." I know lawyers love infinite trials on the same facts, but it's a bad thing for the rest of us.
ML/NJ
Can you kidnap your own child? If so, maybe the fed’s can try her for kidnapping. Then too, if found guilty of that then maybe she’ll be found guilty of murder.
I agree, but hope that no more children get harmed in the process.
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