{"id":3728,"date":"2007-04-29T19:22:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-29T19:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3728"},"modified":"2017-11-29T12:18:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T18:18:00","slug":"layering-and-order-marches-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/29\/layering-and-order-marches-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Layering and Order Marches On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great moments in charge-layering, where prosecutors can add extra crimes for the same action:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A criminal in New York is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/US\/04\/28\/elderly.mugging.ap\/index.html\" target=\"_new\">charged with hate crimes<\/a> because some of his victims were over 60 years old.  That&#8217;s right, boys and girls, if you&#8217;re going to commit crimes, make sure you select a diverse set of victims, because if they&#8217;re of the same protected class, you must hate them.<\/li>\n<li>Some former American Idol contestant is arrested, and she&#8217;s hit with an extra charge of <a href=\"http:\/\/apnews1.iwon.com\/\/article\/20070429\/D8OQE7D80.html\" target=\"_new\">introduction of contraband into a correctional facility<\/a>.  Because she was carrying some coke and the authorities uncovered it while searching her before they actually put her in jail.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Double jeopardy is against the law; however, making the same action or procedures for processing people who committed a crime into other crimes, our system gets to subvert the intent of the Constitution.  For law and order and higher personal conviction rates or easier plea bargains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great moments in charge-layering, where prosecutors can add extra crimes for the same action: A criminal in New York is charged with hate crimes because some of his victims were over 60 years old. That&#8217;s right, boys and girls, if you&#8217;re going to commit crimes, make sure you select a diverse set of victims, because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18120,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728\/revisions\/18120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}