Dateline: 2/16/10–Boynton Beach Florida
LIZ BENJAMIN (10/19/09): [Senator Kevin] Parker also noted Monserrate and his attorney, Joseph Tacopina, have said they intend to appeal the senator's conviction. So, in the end, he might be completely exonerated and, in Parker's eyes, the Senate will have engaged in "double jeopardy by punishing (Monserrate) a second time."
THE NEW YORK TIMES (2/16/10): More than three years after the fatal police shooting of Sean Bell, federal prosecutors have decided not to bring a civil rights case against the New York City police officers involved in the case, according to people familiar with the government’s actions…
…Later, the Rev.Al Sharpton issued a statement in which he said he had spoken with Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., who told him that the evidence was insufficient to pursue federal charges.
“I expressed to him my extreme disappointment in the decision, and our legal advisers saw the evidence and federal jurisdiction differently,” Mr. Sharpton said. “We agreed, however, that the family and community must continue to bring a new day in how we deal with police matters and how both community residents and police are protected equally under the law.”…
…With the decision to not file civil rights charges, the Police Department is now free to move ahead on any internal disciplinary action it may consider in the case. The families can also move ahead with a planned civil lawsuit. Mr. Sharpton said those avenues would “bring some justice” to Mr. Bell’s family and to his two wounded friends…”
So, the officers were completely exonerated, but now face disciplinary action, including the possibility of losing their jobs, on the basis of a non-judicial proceeding following their acquittal.
Senator Parker, are you saying that this too would be "double jeopardy"? Or are you sane?
The last questions was, of course, a rhetorical one.
And the Final Jeopardy question to the answer posed in the title is:
Who is a douchebag?