Problem is that the crime didn’t fit any of the criteria for federal homicide, so they had to settle for lesser charges if they wanted to pursue it as a federal case. A more strategic DOJ probably would have let the state handle it, since it was by all measures the core of the incident would have been a state crime rather than federal.
Problem is that the crime didn’t fit any of the criteria for federal homicide, so they had to settle for lesser charges if they wanted to pursue it as a federal case. A more strategic DOJ probably would have let the state handle it, since it was by all measures the core of the incident would have been a state crime rather than federal.
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crimecharges they had evidence for. The feds fucked up the evidence.Even with evidence, murder is usually a state matter, with very specific circumstances required for it to be federal. It didn’t meet those criteria.