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Old 08-04-2004, 10:41 AM  
mardigras
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Originally posted by dig420
double jeopardy is INTENDED to mean that once you've been tried for a crime in ANY court, that's it. Over. Done with. Now they can hound you and hound you until you die.
In a civil suit you are not charged with any crime. I am not aware of any clause in the double jeopardy law that has ever exempted a person from a civil suit.
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