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* Jack [=McCall=] was found not guilty of murdering Wild Bill Hickock, despite doing it in front of several witnesses. However, the court his trial took place in was set up by a town illegally settled on Indian territory, so it had no authority. This allowed him to be tried again in the Indian territory court, without violation of double jeopardy under the Fifth Amendment of the US Constitution. He was convicted by the jury and sentenced to death. His last words before hanging were in response to a question about why he shot Hickock, a famous gunfighter who had out-drawn everyone who ever faced him, in the back: [[CombatPragmatist "I wasn't looking to commit suicide."]]
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* Jack [=McCall=] was found not guilty of murdering Wild Bill Hickock, despite doing it in front of several witnesses. However, the court his trial took place in was set up by a town illegally settled on Indian Native American territory, so it had no authority. This allowed him to be tried again in the Indian territory court, without violation of double jeopardy under the Fifth Amendment of the US Constitution. He was convicted by the jury and sentenced to death. His last words before hanging were in response to a question about why he shot Hickock, a famous gunfighter who had out-drawn everyone who ever faced him, in the back: [[CombatPragmatist "I wasn't looking to commit suicide."]]
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* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' zig-zags the trope when the clone of a man who was executed for vehicular homicide and manually operating said vehicle under the influence (as in, [[LethallyStupid he had to disable his vehicle's safety features, while ice-cold sober, so that it couldn't stop him from driving manually after he got drunk]]) is brought back to court so that the Toughs can cash in his bounty. [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2002-08-31 The clone rightfully claims that]], since his original has already been executed, he cannot be tried again for the same crime. The judge concedes his point... before pointing out that the original was sentenced to death on the ''two'' counts against him; since the clone was created ''after'' the original crime, he can still be legally executed.
-->'''Judge:''' We can't try you a second time, but we ''can'' kill you again.\\
'''Steve Skarosh:''' But...\\
'''Judge:''' Oh, and you used up all your appeals the first time around. Sorry.
-->'''Judge:''' We can't try you a second time, but we ''can'' kill you again.\\
'''Steve Skarosh:''' But...\\
'''Judge:''' Oh, and you used up all your appeals the first time around. Sorry.
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* This trope is OlderThanRadio. In 1793, a teenage seamstress named Lanah Sawyer accused a wealthy man named Henry Bedlow of raping her. The inherent misogyny of the time led to the court siding with Bedlow and acquitting him, but the Sawyer family proceeded to sue him in civil court for "seducing" Sawyer. The court in this case found against Bedlow and ordered him to pay $4, 500 in restitution, at the time a large enough amount that Bedlow was left destitute and forced into debtor's prison.
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** In 2007, Simpson argued that his current conviction and sentence for armed robbery and kidnapping is this for his acquittal for murder. Granted, the possibility was pointed out by the judge, who warned the jury that they could get removed from the bench if they used the murder trial as a prior prejudice. Though the general public thought he was all but convicted the moment he was arrested, it is also unlikely that many have sympathy for him about this. In an interesting contrast to his last trial, many believed that he was poorly defended, and also that the authorities actually did have an agenda this time around.
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** In 2007, Simpson argued that his current 2008 conviction and sentence sentencing for armed robbery and kidnapping is this for his acquittal for murder. Granted, the possibility was pointed out by the judge, who warned the jury that they could get removed from the bench if they used the murder trial as a prior prejudice. Though the general public thought he was all but convicted the moment he was arrested, it is also unlikely that many have sympathy for him about this. In an interesting contrast to his last trial, many believed that he was poorly defended, and also that the authorities actually did have an agenda this time around. Simpson served 9 years in prison before he was paroled in 2017.
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* In the Christmas episode of the animated series ''WesternAnimation/AceVentura'', Ace couldn't prove Odora stole Santa Claus' reindeer (she intended to use the secret of their gravity-defying abilities on a [[CorruptCorporateExecutive cosmetic]]) but could get her arrested for illegally keeping a crocodile from an endangered breed, which she also intended to use as ingredient.
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* In the Christmas episode of the animated series ''WesternAnimation/AceVentura'', ''WesternAnimation/AceVenturaPetDetective'', Ace couldn't cannot prove Odora stole Santa Claus' reindeer (she intended to use the secret of their gravity-defying abilities on a [[CorruptCorporateExecutive cosmetic]]) but could manages to get her arrested for illegally keeping a crocodile from an endangered breed, which she also intended to use as ingredient.
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** This could even be used to get around double jeopardy. Klansman Byron de la Beckwith, who shot dead civil rights leader Medgar Evers, beat state murder charges twice over thanks to African-Americans being banned from serving on a jury in Mississippi. He was eventually prosecuted in Federal court, which, being a different jurisdiction, was not bound by double jeopardy, and jailed for violating Evers' civil rights.
** This method was even inverted once in the case of Edgar Ray Killen, one of the ringleaders of the triple murder that inspired ''Film/MississippiBurning'', who managed to avoid conviction at his Federal civil rights trial by one vote (with the lone holdout later admitting that she only voted not guilty because Killen was a preacher). Years later, he was indicted on state murder charges and sentenced to 60 years in prison (which, since he was in his eighties by this point, was functionally a LongerThanLifeSentence).
** This method was even inverted once in the case of Edgar Ray Killen, one of the ringleaders of the triple murder that inspired ''Film/MississippiBurning'', who managed to avoid conviction at his Federal civil rights trial by one vote (with the lone holdout later admitting that she only voted not guilty because Killen was a preacher). Years later, he was indicted on state murder charges and sentenced to 60 years in prison (which, since he was in his eighties by this point, was functionally a LongerThanLifeSentence).
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** The same thing happened in the twentieth century in the case of Caleb Hughes, who was accused of murdering five-year-old Melissa Brannen. All the evidence pointed to him, but because they NeverFoundTheBody and Hughes wouldn't confess, the prosecution couldn't prove she was murdered. But they could prove she had been taken away in Hughes' car and Hughes was sentenced to 50 years for kidnapping Melissa.
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** In ''[[VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney Apollo Justice]]'', there's an odd example of the Justice by Another Crime type: Apollo lacks the evidence to convict the culprit of the third case, but is able to prove an accomplice exists. Once it becomes clear to said accomplice that the only way to avoid the death penalty for their own crime is to confess immediately, they do so then and there.
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* '''Justice by Lawsuit:''' The prosecutor was not able to convict the criminal, but the evidence amassed could be given to the victim and/or his family as good enough grounds to sue the criminal for everything they have in civil court.
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* '''Justice by Lawsuit:''' The prosecutor was not able to convict the criminal, but the evidence amassed could be given to the victim and/or his family as good enough grounds to sue the criminal for everything they have in civil court. This can happen if the standard of proof needed to convict someone in a criminal case is higher ("proven beyond reasonable doubt") than in civil court ("preponderance of evidence").
