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Re: ValuJet double jeopardy?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 20 Jul 1999 15:29:59 GMT
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On Sun, 18 Jul 1999 02:13:57 GMT, Lee Jorgensen <ljorgensen@zephyrtech.com>
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> AFAIK, double jeopardy is where you are _TRIED_ twice for the same offense.
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* case. So we can ignore
the logic and the basic laws, and continue on with revenge-court.
What a screwed up legal system we've got in the US.
Steve
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| (...) Aquitted, not based on whether he did it or not, but as a message to even the score on racism. (...) Screwed up system doled out a little justice after all. Even a blind squirrel finds a nut every now and then;-) (...) Screwed up! Are you (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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