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Posted by SLRT on Tue Jun 26 09:50:58 2012, in response to Re: I CALLED IT!, posted by AlM on Tue Jun 26 09:36:49 2012. After the 14th Amendment was passed there was an extended period and a number of cases in which there was confusion about dual sovereignty. Eventually a number of case decisions stripped away the federal-state duality until double jeopardy in criminal trial seems to be the major one still standing.An interesting application, now ended, of this "two masters" theory involved people who were given immunity to testify in state cases in order to convict others (typically corruption cases), thereby incriminating themselves. Then the Feds would prosecute the person on his own testimony, saying that he only have STATE immunity. This was known as the "silver platter" doctrine, but the Feds' case was being handed to them on a silver platter. |
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