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Hatch backs Supreme Court case that would ban both federal and state prosecutions for the same crime

“‘The extensive federalization of criminal law has rendered ineffective the federalist underpinnings of the dual-sovereignty doctrine,’ Hatch’s brief, filed last month, says. ‘And its persistence impairs full realization of the Double Jeopardy Clause’s liberty protections’.“

Salt Lake Tribune

October 12, 2018