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TweetyBird · « **Reply #15 on:** February 26, 2005, 11:04:22 PM »

I guess due process is a bad subject to bring up right now...

Lizking · « **Reply #16 on:** February 26, 2005, 11:59:33 PM »

I think we should duly process him, then put him in the Gibbon.

Raider179 · « **Reply #17 on:** February 27, 2005, 02:29:00 AM »

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Originally posted by jEEZY
Perhaps...but the feds have yet to weigh in on this one and may throw in their dp laws--seems the us attornies are letting the local da have her day in the sun before the feds get their slam dunk murder trial.

Not sure at all on the laws but I dont think he crossed state lines so I dont think he is eligible for federal trial either. But hell I think life in jail is way worse than the death penalty.

Holden McGroin · « **Reply #18 on:** February 27, 2005, 02:36:59 AM »

Even if he went from Kansas to Arkansas to murder somebody it would not be a federal crime, it would be State of Arkansas that would try him for a murder committed in their state.

Raider179 · « **Reply #19 on:** February 27, 2005, 02:37:51 AM »

It doesnt make it a federal crime to cross interstate boundries?

Captain Virgil Hilts · « **Reply #20 on:** February 27, 2005, 03:00:09 AM »

If he kidnapped a victim and crossed a state line with that victim, it is Federal.

Holden McGroin · « **Reply #21 on:** February 27, 2005, 03:09:08 AM »

Since the Lindbergh baby kidnapping/murder, kidnapping has been a federal crime no matter the circumstances.

Travelling to another state to commit a crime does not make any crime federal, but interstate flight to avoid prosecution is a federal crime.

If BTK killed somebody out of state then he would be liable for murder charges there. Some federal prosecutor could probably argue that returning home was interstate flight, but that would not be a capital charge.

Raider179 · « **Reply #22 on:** February 27, 2005, 03:12:35 AM »

Ok so he is not eligible for federal prosecution? is that correct?

Holden McGroin · « **Reply #23 on:** February 27, 2005, 03:19:26 AM »

Not unless maybe one of the victims was a Federal Law Officer of some kind... ATF, FBI, or some other alphabetic agency.

Raider179 · « **Reply #24 on:** February 27, 2005, 03:24:09 AM »

ok thats what I thought.

Thrawn · « **Reply #25 on:** February 27, 2005, 04:05:46 AM »

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Originally posted by eagl
It's gotta be fair and the system has to make every effort to keep innocent people from being executed, but it shouldn't take 10+ years to execute someone who is guilty beyond any shadow of a doubt.

Juries aren't asked if they think the defendant is guilty beyond any shadow of a doubt.

Holden McGroin · « **Reply #26 on:** February 27, 2005, 05:35:23 AM »

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"We're gonna give ya a fair trial, and then we're gonna hang ya." --- Paul Newman, "The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean"