RE: #655

As a practical matter if defendant A is acquitted of committing one murder it is a practical impossibility to bring charges against the same defendant for another murder that occurred at the same time (I am not saying one has to like it I am just saying)

Re: #656 Occasional Reader

Different sovereignty is the method used to get around the “Two Bites at the Apple” problem but it’s use in this manner is recent and not within the historical traditional use of the principle under common law.