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Originally Posted by SmokeyTheBear
i don't know the legal system very well but if he confessed to killing them in self defense , could they not try him for manslaughter or some other lesser charge ?
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No, he can't be tried in criminal court at all for that crime or anything even related to it.
For the reasons I listed on page one. Our justice system is based on that law in that the government should not prosecute a case until they are sure that they have all the evidence needed to secure a conviction.
Otherwise prosecutors would keep dragging anyone who was found innocent of a crime into court until they got any sort of conviction to stick. As with anything ruled on by the supreme court, there are no exceptions.