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May. 9th, 2012 08:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingSextuple Jeopardy: A man tried six times for the same crime. Convicted four times, with the first three thrown out on appeal due to prosecutorial misconduct and the last up for appeal on prosecutorial misconduct grounds now, and two hung juries - but the same prosecutor keeps retrying the same case (and fucking it up by maliciously breaking the rules 100% of the time so far, reviews show) and he's promised that if the current appeal holds, he'll try the same person a seventh time for the same crime.
I know I've got a couple of American lawyers in the audience: Is there anyone who can take the county DA off the case and assign a different prosecutor to the case? Or does the buck stop at the county DA? And is there any way for a judge to say "No, dude, YOU fucked it up six times in a row, you don't get a seventh shot at it since you're tromping all over his 5th and 6th Amendment rights."
I know I've got a couple of American lawyers in the audience: Is there anyone who can take the county DA off the case and assign a different prosecutor to the case? Or does the buck stop at the county DA? And is there any way for a judge to say "No, dude, YOU fucked it up six times in a row, you don't get a seventh shot at it since you're tromping all over his 5th and 6th Amendment rights."