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Old February 12, 2007, 05:14 PM   #7
Oz_Shadow
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You can be convicted in a state court + federal court and it does not violate double jeopardy. You could actually be convicted on murder in two states for the same crime and it would not violate double jeopardy. Double jeopardy attaches only when tried twice by the same sovereign jurisdiction. Separate sovereign jurisdictions (different states, fed gov) can prosecute an individual that has already been convicted in a different sovereign jurisdiction.



The movie "Double Jeopardy" is a complete falsehood because if I remember correctly, the lady traveled to a different state to kill her husband.
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