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| Cop-killer Betsy Ramos wins parole -- but gets sent right back to prison |
| 2019-12-11 |
| [NYPOST] Another case of a good decision making bad law. I can't see how a sentence served for a crime at state level should be ignored at federal level, anymore than a sentence served at federal level should be prosecuted a second time at state level. What comes next? County court, followed by city court? There's that Constitutional thingy about double jeopardy. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Double jeopardy also is meant to prevent the kind of SS that Rep. Al Green is suggesting for the impeachment. (yes I know that impeachment is different but the idea that you keep trying someone over and over till you find a jury that will convict was the fear) The feds get one chance to make their case they can't keep pitching when they lose. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2019-12-11 09:45 |
| #2 The constitutional prohibition against double jeopardy only applies to the sovereign attempting a prosecution. States and the federal government are separate sovereigns so prosecution by one sovereign does not prevent prosecution by another sovereign. Usually in practice the federal government prosecutes someone when the state or local government refuses to prosecute. In the instant situation the federal government had pending charges against Ramos for for matters other than the state charges for which she went to prison so double jeopardy is inapplicable in any event. |
| Posted by: BrujoTejano 2019-12-11 09:13 |
| #1 That Constitution is only as good as the men and women empowered to interpret it. They basically left the room over 50 years ago. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-12-11 07:37 |