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Many Americans are worried that some foreseeable and preventable legal mistake (double-jeopardy, etc.; the usual “technicality”) will set KSM free.
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But the organization has challenged aspects of various sex offender and violent criminal registries around the country, arguing that convicts paid their debt to society as demanded by the law, and shouldn't face the double-jeopardy of further punishment.
Should Convicted Murderers Be Forced To Register Online? Will Guzzardi 2011
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It is double-jeopardy, especially for non-violent offenders.
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Theoretically Mr. Fhimah could be retried given that Scotland recently abandoned the double-jeopardy rule that stops a suspect being tried twice for the same alleged crime.
Scotland Interviews Former Libyan Foreign Minister Alistair MacDonald 2011
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But the organization has challenged aspects of various sex offender and violent criminal registries around the country, arguing that convicts paid their debt to society as demanded by the law, and shouldn't face the double-jeopardy of further punishment.
Should Convicted Murderers Be Forced To Register Online? Will Guzzardi 2011
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But the organization has challenged aspects of various sex offender and violent criminal registries around the country, arguing that convicts paid their debt to society as demanded by the law, and shouldn't face the double-jeopardy of further punishment.
Should Convicted Murderers Be Forced To Register Online? Will Guzzardi 2011
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A hearing on the double-jeopardy issue will be on 2 Sept – but no new possible trial date was set.
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It is double-jeopardy, especially for non-violent offenders.
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But the organization has challenged aspects of various sex offender and violent criminal registries around the country, arguing that convicts paid their debt to society as demanded by the law, and shouldn't face the double-jeopardy of further punishment.
Should Convicted Murderers Be Forced To Register Online? Will Guzzardi 2011
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The vindictive brutality of throwing stones just small enough to make sure the victim suffers before dying, the extremism of a death sentence for the alleged crime of adultery, the double-jeopardy punishment and retroactive charges dumped on her by the Iranian justice system -- these all combined to fuel global outrage and depict in full view the grotesque perversion of justice Sakineh has faced.
Ricken Patel: Save Sakineh Ricken Patel 2010
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