A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer charged with lying to investigators about the events leading up to the shooting of a Venezuelan man during the Minneapolis immigration crackdown is in federal custody.
  • meco03211@lemmy.world
    4·
    21 days ago

    Unlike New York, Minnesota can prosecute for the same act as the feds. This wouldn’t implicate state level double jeopardy protections.

      • Carl@anarchist.nexusEnglish
        6·
        21 days ago

        New York specifically has a law barring the state from prosecuting crimes that the Feds have already prosecuted. Other states don’t have that law, so other states could prosecute him at the state level.