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83LowRider

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DJ only applies if they are found guilty.

Double jeopardy is when you've been found innocent.

I meant to say "DJ only applies if they are found "not guilty".

Figured that, but wanted to clarify.

It would have to be a different charge entirely.

That isn't exactly true. If a crime exists at both the federal
and state level, they can in fact try you separately for both,
even after you've been acquitted of one.

I'd need to see some examples of that. Not saying it couldn't
happen, but a lawyer would have a field day with it.

In reality, they technically can try someone for the same thing if
there is both a federal and a state law.
It's just that DOJ practice
over the years has been to not do that, unless exceptional
circumstances exist. That is rarely done.

Again, this may be, but I'm unaware of it happening.

But it's more common for the feds to do
as you cite, bring a charge after someone is acquitted of a state
crime for a federal civil rights violation. A case they never would
have brought had the person been convicted. But they only
do that selectively as well, depending apparently mostly on your
color. And as I said, it appears pretty close to violating double
jeopardy to me. Anytime you kill someone, you're obviously violating
their civil rights.

We're talking criminal cases here, not civil.

Understood... but because of double jeopardy laws it
is often a means of last resort to take it to a civil court.