Word: saltzburg
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...particular crime, principles of fairness and finality require that he not be subjected to the possibility of further punishment by being again tried or sentenced for the same offense." Scholars, nonetheless, tend to doubt that this precludes separate state prosecutions. Says University of Virginia Law Professor Stephen Saltzburg: "Two different states, or a state and the Federal Government, can prosecute what one state cannot prosecute twice." Agrees Harvard Law Professor Arthur Miller: "If Alabama wants to try to convict these people, then that is its right." There is more debate, however, about whether the Georgia confessions and guilty pleas...
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