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<blockquote data-quote="gerhard1" data-source="post: 3181669" data-attributes="member: 5391"><p>Not sure if it answers your question, but in 1964, three young men from New York went to Mississippi to help Blacks register to vote, and disappeared. A few weeks later,their bodies were discovered and their deaths were ruled as homicides.</p><p></p><p>Very strong evidence pointed to three Klansmen, one of whom was an LEO. They were charged in state court with murder and an all-White jury acquitted them even though the LEO lost his job.</p><p></p><p>The Justice Department then brought civil rights charges against the three, and they were convicted. The USSC upheld the federal convictions based on the subject of this thread--separate jurisdictions.</p><p></p><p>While it can be abused, I don't object to the concept in and of itself, if two sets of laws are violated by the same act.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gerhard1, post: 3181669, member: 5391"] Not sure if it answers your question, but in 1964, three young men from New York went to Mississippi to help Blacks register to vote, and disappeared. A few weeks later,their bodies were discovered and their deaths were ruled as homicides. Very strong evidence pointed to three Klansmen, one of whom was an LEO. They were charged in state court with murder and an all-White jury acquitted them even though the LEO lost his job. The Justice Department then brought civil rights charges against the three, and they were convicted. The USSC upheld the federal convictions based on the subject of this thread--separate jurisdictions. While it can be abused, I don't object to the concept in and of itself, if two sets of laws are violated by the same act. [/QUOTE]
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