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The Rittenhouse Trial and Law Stuff

It Could Happen Here

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What Is the Difference Between State and Federal Jurisdiction?

In its simplest expression, when we talk about the difference between state and federal jurisdiction, we're saying, kind of jurisdiction for dummies, overly simplified. If your offence conduct, or alleged offence conduct, impacts more than one state a, then it is or can be prosecuted by the federal department of justice. So kil written house crossed state lines with a pretty serious firearm and he shot three people. This puts us immediately into federal jurisdiction land. He did this in the context of an uprising for racial justice that has been characterized by the fact that those rising up on the side of a justice have been subject to intense repression by the federal government. The reason written house is going to trial, is

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