SkyHog
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Everything Offends Me
Ok - my brother and law were arguing over something. Crazy enough, I then saw it on an episode of Matlock. I'll skip who said what to avoid the possiblility of favortism.
A man is tried and convicted for murdering his wife. There was no evidence left behind except a cloudy bathtub filled with acid.
The man is sentenced to 30 years behind bars, which he dutifully does, and is never offered or denied parole.
He gets out 30 years later and starts to piece his life together again. His wife returns and explains that she feels guilty because she faked her own death, and assumed a new identity while he rotted in prison. In sheer outrage, the man murders his wife.
Can he be tried again? One of us says that he was already convicted of murdering his wife, therefore it would be double jeopardy. The other one of us says that its a different crime with a different motive and presumably a different weapon.
A man is tried and convicted for murdering his wife. There was no evidence left behind except a cloudy bathtub filled with acid.
The man is sentenced to 30 years behind bars, which he dutifully does, and is never offered or denied parole.
He gets out 30 years later and starts to piece his life together again. His wife returns and explains that she feels guilty because she faked her own death, and assumed a new identity while he rotted in prison. In sheer outrage, the man murders his wife.
Can he be tried again? One of us says that he was already convicted of murdering his wife, therefore it would be double jeopardy. The other one of us says that its a different crime with a different motive and presumably a different weapon.