Candi
Sorcerer in training
Since: Aug, 2012
Sorcerer in training
Mar 19th 2013 at 5:22:10 AM
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"On an episode of Law & Order, a Mafia boss arranges for two of his underlings to turn stoolie and feed false information about a murder he ordered to the police, so his attorney can reveal the deception at trial and get the case thrown out of court. As a result, when the cops find real evidence linking him to the crime, they can't do anything about it because of double jeopardy."
Which isn't how double jeopardy actually works. (Hollywood Law...) Double jeopardy means a person can't be tried twice for the same crime with the same evidence. New evidence is something else. Check out the case of assassinated civil rights leader Medgar Evans as an example of how it works.
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett
Disambiguated per TRS
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman