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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (1721)	9/10/1999 7:13:00 PM
From: Constant Reader	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6418

EDIT 2 guys. Yes. Detroit. 1982. Vincent Chin. You can look it up. There is a movie about it as well, "Who Killed Vincent Chin?" Following an uproar from the Chinese commmunity, the Justice Department subsequently charge them with violating Chin's civil rights. They were convicted - I think one served no time and the other was released within months for alcoholism treatment. At the time, Michigan congressmen were making unsubstantiated incendiary accusations about Japan and the Japanese people. I don't remember any of those same people protesting the original verdict, such well known figures as Conyers and Dingell among them. Although I despise the criminals and the gutless wonders whose demagogic rhetoric inflamed passions and encouraged such hatred, it seemed to me at the time, and still does to this day, that they were effectively tired twice for the same crime. It has become fashionable to use this approach to effectively reverse unpopular jury verdicts. It appears that double-jeapordy only applies when "we" get the result "we" want (whoever "we" is).