Trying someone twice for the same crime sounds like it could violate double jeopardy. But not when one case is state and another is federal. That's what happened to Derek Chauvin. (via Deadline: White House)
because the feds and states have their own crimes, it’s not the “same” crime, technically, since one is state and the other is federal. The Supreme Court had the chance to do away with the doctrine in 2019 butIndeed, the ability to bring additional federal charges has been an important tool for civil rights prosecutions. The case against the Los Angeles Police Department
officers who beat Rodney King in 1991 is a prime example, because some of the officers acquitted in state court were later convicted federally. Importantly, though, it doesn’t matter if the first case results in a conviction; the second “sovereign” can still bring a successive prosecution. That's what happened, for example, with
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