• PhilipTheBucket@piefed.socialM
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    7 months ago

    There are lots of procedural ways to give people double jeopardy. That little dodge where, historically, the cops would beat the fuck out of someone, be found not guilty on the state level, and then the feds would come in and charge them with the officially totally seperate federal crime of “violating this person’s federal civil rights by beating the fuck out of them” and make the charges stick, is one of the most notable examples.