Does this count as Double Jeopardy?

Question

I kill my wife and go to jail for man slaughter. I get out 12 years later and I find out she's still alive (changed her identity). The whole time she was leeching out of my rich mother dying mother,and poisoned out 3 children for the insurance money. Knowing all of this, I still have no proof against her and this leads me to shoot her dead at her job in front of everyone. The police ID her as my wife that I supposedly killed. Can I be charged with murder?

Answer 1

Yup. They'll appologize for the first incarceration,
and put you away for another.
Different date, different crime.

Answer 2

It's disheartening to realise that whatever the law is, the authorities will often bend it to suit their purposes.
Back in the early 1990s, for those who can remember, there was the infamous Rodney King assault court cases where four police officers where originally acquitted of the crime. Rioting followed and so to quell inflamed passions, the authorities decided to trial the police again. But how could they? What about double jeopardy?
Simple, you invent a new crime called "violating a persons civil rights" Of course one might ask how you could commit any crime without violating the victims rights. But answers to questions like that weren't too forthcoming and the accused were reprosecuted, duly found guilty and sent to the jail.

My point is that it would look bad for the sake of order and the tranquility of modern society if one could legally just walk into someone's place of work and blast them into oblivion. Therefore the authorities would try to present any excuse so as to charge the perpetuator with murder, despite double jeopardy attaching. I think it is pretty lame to suggest that a crime is defined by what day it happened, but I'm sure that won't stop the prosecutor.
All the same there is still one thing the state can't do; and that is to put a fix in for the sentence. All the poster above who is charged with murder, has to do is to explain to the jury the full circumstances of the case and then to mention the 5th amendment. If not all of twelve good men and women true, there will still be a few who will stand and prevent a conviction due to their sense of justice.

Answer 3

I gotta go with the first guy. You'll get exonerated on the first, then convicted on the second. Although it would present an interesting case. I'm sure you'd have a hell of an argument that you already did the time for the crime.

Its like the old you fire a gun out the window right as someone is commiting suicide by jumping off the 100 floor ( so he would die) Your bullet hits and kills the person as they pass your window. Should you be charged with murder when without your bullet, the guy would have been dead anyway?

Things that make you go hmmmmm

Answer 4

The double Jeopardy regulation applies to the comparable crime, it is why it is extra often than not used for homicide situations. while you're convicted on the information of the crime, and the guy had faked the dying, then later you ought to kill that person and not be charged with murdering them back. interior the example of your motorbike it is unquestionably available to re-thieve the motorbike because of the fact the motorbike nonetheless exists.

Answer 5

Depends if they can prove it was you. Surely the three dead children would make the police a little suspicious before you shoot her, especially if they're your's and her's, and she still had them.

Answer 6

I saw that movie. Not bad. Only it was the other way around. And it was called Double Jeopardy (Ashley Judd is hot).

Answer 7

You watch too much Television