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SCOTUS Again Upholds Double Prosecution and Punishment for the Same Crime - The Liberty Dispatch
The federal government prosecuted Merle Denezpi twice for the same crime. It also punished him twice: the first time with 140 days in a federal detention center, the second time with a prison sentence more than 70 times as long. Although that may seem like an obvious violation of the Fifth Amendment’s ban on double …