Re: Redheaded Heroines

On 29 Nov 2003 18:17:24 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William December
Starr) wrote:

>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>
>> However they have found ways around the Constitutional protection
>> against double jeopardy.  Just have a dozen different names for the
>> same crime.  The feds can put away a murderer for depriving the
>> victim of his civil rights, for instance.
>
>That's (I think) not a matter of multiple names, it's multiple
>_jurisdictions_ -- the state where the act occurred vs. the federal
>government.
>
>It's _still_ something of an end-run around Double Jeopardy, I think,
>but not quite the one you described.
>
That depends, too, on how you view the case.  For example, I believe
that if a murder occurs during a robbery, you could try the person
twice, once for the murder case, once for the robbery.  It wouldn't be
double jeapordy, since the two crimes are different, even though they
are closely linked in this situation.  However, IANAL, and I could be
wrong.

Rebecca