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[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 7 points 4 hours ago

double jeopardy.

We're talking about the justice system here not some game show.

[-] fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com 3 points 1 hour ago

Are you joking right now?

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 29 points 4 hours ago

Double jeopardy is a legal defense that stops the government from trying or punishing a person twice for the same crime.

[-] Carl@anarchist.nexus 10 points 3 hours ago

The Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution, emphasis mine:

No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

Double jeopardy is a legal concept that means a person can’t be tried for the same crime twice. Leading up to the revolution, there was an issue with British authorities charging colonists with trumped up charges just to harass them. And when they’d beat the charges, the authorities would just charge them with the same crime again, starting the entire process all over again. So they specifically listed a “no double jeopardy” clause in the constitution, because they had seen how a prosecutor could abuse the legal system to keep an innocent person perpetually locked up.

However, double jeopardy doesn’t typically protect someone across state and federal crimes. Courts have repeatedly upheld that you can be tried in both, because the two courts are entirely separate. So it’s interesting that they’re trying to use the double jeopardy argument to say that the state can’t charge him.

[-] f314@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago
[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 19 points 3 hours ago

SatansMaggotyCumFart is almost always making a joke. Every once in a while he says something not joking or trolling, and it's wierd.

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 17 points 3 hours ago

Weird is one of those strange words where the i is after the e.

[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

It’s easy to remember “weird’s weird,” though.

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 hours ago

See, this is exactly what I'm talking about.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

SatansMaggotyCumFart is almost always making a joke.

Or blaming the Left for Kamala Harris being an awful candidate that didn't earn enough votes to beat the most unqualified, unpopular, and corrupt pile of radioactive waste to ever seek the office.

He REALLY loves beating that particular dead horse on any post about the Mango Mussolini doing something particularly heinous.

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