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From: mark@elsie.UUCP (Mark J. Miller)
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: Re: NYC subway hero
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Date: Wed, 9-Jan-85 17:56:14 EST
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> 
> Maybe D.C. really has, or used to have, its own criminal code.
> ... why doesn't anyone in D.C. answer this?
> 
Yes, murder is illegal in DC. If you kill an average Joe Shmoo in the district,
it's the city governments problem. If you get a Congress-person or Federal
Official, it's both a Federal and a Local offense. When King Ronald got shot
they had the option of trying Hinkley under Federal or Local law. They chose
Federal only to find it was much easier to plead insanity.

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