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If this guy hadn't successfully appealed the federal charges, could the state have waited until he'd finished that sentence before prosecuting? If yes, it's lik

• runako 14y ago
  Except that they are different laws and therefore different crimes. Let's use something more obvious: a bank robber who fatally shoots a guard on the way out. That's one event but several crimes. This person can absolutely be tried and sentenced for any/all of the crimes committed in that event, separately, in separate courts (federal and state). While I think the prosecutions are typically sequential, they wouldn't be combined (different jurisdictions). Similar logic applies to a criminal who commits crimes across several states.