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Re: 'Off' the parking pigs! (fwd)
On 12/10/97 2:45 PM, Eric Seggebruch - NYC SE
([email protected]) passed this wisdom:
>Actually it is possible for the government to get more than one shot at
>a defendant through the doctrine of dual sovereignty (state and
>federal). That is how they got the police officers involved in the
>Rodney King incident. When the state court (California) jury let them
>off, the feds prosecuted them for civil rights violations in federal
>court.
TRhey also got the guys who murdered the civil rights workers in the
60's, after being acquitted in state court of murder. They were convicted
of the federal crime of violating the victims civil rights also.
Brian B. Riley --> http://members.macconnect.com/~brianbr
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