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Re: ValuJet double jeopardy?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Sun, 18 Jul 1999 02:13:57 GMT
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Sproaticus wrote:
> Huh?
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> I've been reading about 110 charges of 3rd degree murder and manslaughter
> brought against SabreTech by the state of Florida for the 1996 ValuJet
> crash:
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> http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/ts/story.html?s=v/nm/19990713/ts/valujet_charge_1.html
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> The federal government is expected to follow suit.
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> What I don't understand is how someone can be slapped with both 3rd degree
> murder *and* manslaughter for the same death. Isn't that double jeopardy?
AFAIK, double jeopardy is where you are _TRIED_ twice for the same offense.
I believe that the States Attorney slapped them with both just to cover if the jury
cannot find for 3rd Degree Murder, but can find for manslaugter ...
Usually murder cases have both 1st & 2nd ... 2nd & manslaugter ... or a combination
of charges, just in case the jury cannot find for the greater offense, they can find for the
lessor offense ...
> And if the feds also charge them with 110 counts of 3rd degree murder and
> manslaughter (or whatever criminal charges the feds want to slap on them),
> isn't that merely duplication of the prosecution?
No ... the jury can consider both types of offenses when deciding if they committed
a crime ...
-Lee.
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| (...) Would that be like if your ex-wife and her boyfriend were murdered, and it looked you did it, so you were tried for murdered, but you were acquitted, and so you got sued for "wrongful death"? Oh, wait; that's OK, because the suit is a *civil* (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| Huh? I've been reading about 110 charges of 3rd degree murder and manslaughter brought against SabreTech by the state of Florida for the 1996 ValuJet crash: (URL) federal government is expected to follow suit. What I don't understand is how someone (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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